Man 180 bpm Heart Rate?!

tachycardia can be caused by many things in the elderly. Usually it is simply caused by a misfire in the heart easily treated with medications. Sometimes it resolves without meds. Both of my elderly parents have had episodes of this.

It sounds like he is in whats called SVT, I have something called wolff parkinson white syndrome which causes me to have abnormal and a fast heart rhythm it is painless and just makes you feel very giddy and tired, Ive had it since I was 2 weeks old after suffering a heart attack and am now 23, I have never had one since and am now on medication to slow my heart rhythm if the fast heart pace should carry on and he is in SVT they will simply inject your father with a drug that will stop his heart momentarily and restart,he will be awake when they do this, its painless just very uncomfortable as you could imagine. I have had this done numerous times.
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If a young person was doing excercise like running that would be okay, but for an elderly man it is pretty bad.

"Taching out" is what the ER doctors call it. The term refers to tachycardia, meaning a racing heart, this happens when someone is dying but it can also be caused by a number of things.

If he is not in pain then it could be any number of issues and he may be okay. When somone "tachs out" near death they are already semi concious and in a great deal of pain.

I am sorry to tell you.. but... 180bmp is pretty much near death.