Patient was educated on premature ventricular contraction (PVC) as follows:
- Premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) are a type of arrhythmia of the heart, when heart beat will arise from ventricular muscle and not the pacemaker of the heart.
- These beats can sometimes be too slow and few or too fast and more in number, thus resulting in symptoms which can be mild and benign to extremely harmful. Usually, these are benign causing no overt symptoms.
- Most common symptom of a PVC is palpitations of the heart, which is an unusual sense of awareness of the heartbeat.
- Palpitations are heartbeats that are irregularly timed and not in synchronization with the regular heartbeat initiated in the natural pacemaker of the heart, which is the SA node.