The medical team shocked his heart back into a normal rhythm, and after a series of tests, it wasn’t long before the otherwise healthy Gossett was back in the gym. But now his wrist is never without his watch. As good as smartwatches are at detecting arterial fibrillation, they ...
For V-fib and V-tach, electricity may be the most important drug, and the heart is shocked back into a heart rhythm, hopefully, compatible with life. Other common medications used in crisis situations depend upon the life-threatening rhythm and may include epinephrine (adrenalin), atropine, an...
“Ted’s wife, his high school sweetheart who - no doubt - saved his life by administering CPR until help would arrive with an AED (Automated Electronic Defibrillator), which would zap Ted’s heart back into some semblance of normal rhythm.” By the time paramedics shocked him...
The tech said that like the one Ben currently had, it monitored the heart to keep it in rhythm, but also would monitor when he went into Afib, and would deliver a shock to the heart to put it back in rhythm when necessary. Yes, he would feel it, but most likely he could tell whe...
I know there are the strong ones. Those who can go on with their lives even if they have an Ectopic Heartbeat spell. Even when they are not in normal sinus rhythm. They go on regardless. That depends. It depends on how bad your heart is out of rhythm. It plays a major factor. Mi...
Knowing that your heart had stopped should have shocked you into running for help. For you this time, not me. I began to realize that every admission was because of me. Me wanting to save you. Me begging and pleading for your life. Me forcing you to go “or else”. Now I wonder ...
I said I'd write more about my transhumance and getting back into the rhythm of country life but I haven't. I've been doubling down on the Loire book and offer, instead, the draft of my review of the wines of Francis & Pascal Cotat in WineTastingNotes. April 12, 2011: The ...
After her heart was shocked back into a normal rhythm eight times while pregnant with her third child in 2016, Criss wanted to know the exact cause of her own mother's death. "After I had my daughter, my mind frame totally changed," she said. "I thought I should know to benefit or...
The diagnosis shocked Gray-Stanford, who always thought of heart disease as something people caused themselves through bad habits. That wasn't him. "I had a healthy diet. I exercised. I did all the right things. Yet here I am."