My GP challenged my cardiologists treatment
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I attended A&E with difficulty in breathing and was quickly diagnosed as having supraventricular tachycardia with a pulse rate of 160 bpm.
?My tachycardia was brought under control on the cardiac ward under the care of an eminent cardiologist. Whilst still under the care of my cardiologist I was discharged pending cardioversion to restore sinus rhythm and told to keep an eye on my blood pressure.
?My GP had doubts about the appropriateness of my prescribed hospital drugs and said that my blood pressure readings were in the 'wrong ballpark'.
?I have come to understand that the body adjusts blood pressure variability in both the short and long term by modulating systolic, diastolic and pulse rate simultaneously to achieve a numeric balance of zero.
?The reference cardiologists blood pressure values are thus represented by the equation f(s,d,p)=0 for a mean arterial pressure of 120 mmHg.
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lyn1951 Bob37393
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I do know that some BP & heart medications due drop heart rate. Husband has heart failure and that is exeactly what the Dr's hoped to achieve with his medications, and after some fiddling around with various tablets it worked and worked well, they decribed it to me as resting his heart as best available.
When his heart rate fell to 30BPM, the first thing they did was take his perondopril off him, for 24 hours, as they thought there may be a connection, there wasn't as his heart beat then dropped to 23BPM, they decided it must be his electrical system, it was, 100% blockage, pacemaker installed, set at 63BPM, still gets breathless alot, but he is still trying to do toooo much, may need tweaking up a little to suit him better.
Bob37393 lyn1951
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Letter 1: chamber that is paced (A = atria, V = ventricles, D = dual-chamber).Letter 2: chamber that is sensed (A = atria, V = ventricles, D = dual-chamber, 0 = none).
Letter 3: response to a sensed event (T = triggered, I = inhibited, D = dual - T and I, R = reverse).
Letter 4: rate-responsive features; an activity sensor (eg, an accelerometer in the pulse generator) in single or dual-chamber pacemakers detects bodily movement and increases the pacing rate according to a programmable algorithm (R = rate-responsive pacemaker).
Letter 5: anti-tachycardia facilities.
derek76 Bob37393
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When I was handed mine I right away said that they had fitted the wrong one! I was supposed to have a dual chamber one but they had fitted a single chamber one.