When your heart beats too fast

Palpitations are actually a subjective feeling that your pulse, which you can feel at your wrist as seen in this filepic, is beating too fast.

The heart, opines National Heart Institute (better known by its Malay acronym IJN) senior consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist Dr Azlan Hussin, is like a house.

According to him, you have the general cardiologists that look at the general well-being of the “house” and detect early signs of trouble.