What is the treatment for heart palpitations?
Patient: Strange issue -- I keep skipping very random heart beats, followed by no chest pain but  constantly, daily, I seem to have sudden hard 'whacking' hard heart beats in my chest seemingly randomly. Is this an issue I should see a doctor for, even though my mother complains of having the same thing most of her life, however, not as frequent as myself? Doctor: Hi,Welcome, this is Dr Sameer, cardiologist.Skipped heart beat could be in form of premature ventricular contraction (PVC), which are premature contraction from a normal part of heart or could be more serious arrhythmia in form of Atrial Fibrillation.For the diagnosis, you need to do a ECG at the time of this skipped heart beat. If the duration of these skipped beats are short enough to reach a nearby hospital, we advice our patients for a 24 hr ECG monitoring called Holter Monitoring.The treatment will be as per the report of above tests. So get these tests done soon.ThanksTake care