I just realized my orginal post was posted in a forum only moderators could respond to. I was going to add a couple things to it and couldn't. The original post is below, and then I added my additional comments/questions.
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The whole time he was hooked to this monitor his heart rate stayed in the 50's, with an occasional drop into the 40's. Even during these episodes. Wouldn't PVC's cause an increase or change in the heart rate?
And while the nurse was originally hooking him up to the monitor she said "Wow, I can SEE them!" meaning you could see his heart pounding and those funny quivers, just by looking at his chest!
One more question...............will his ICD have recorded any of this?
I took Andrew to the local ER tonight because his heart was beating and acting very "wacky". When he first told me about it I took a listen with the stethascope. WOW! There was definetly something wacky going on. I had no problem hearing what he was describing. His heart would beat at a normal rate for about 6 beats, then go into a supper fast rate for about 6 beats, then back to a normal beat for 6-10 beats then back to the super fast rate. Then there would be a run of regular beats of anywhere from 30 seconds to 2-3 minutes. Then back to the super fast beat cycle again. This continued to happen every 30 seconds to a couple of minutes....... for two hours. I then decided to take him to the ER. He was hooked up to the monitor there for three hours and this pattern continued the whole time. It was almost scarey to watch them on the monitor. It happened continuously at the same frequent pattern for the three hours we were there.
They called an "on call" pediatric cardiologist in MN at his heart clinic. It was decided he was having continuous runs of PVCs. They sent us home and said to come back if he starts experiencing any chest pains or other symptoms. I have read enough here to know normally PVCs are not concerning. But do they normally come back to back continuously like this for hours? It is now 6 hours later and they have not let up at all.
They called an "on call" pediatric cardiologist in MN at his heart clinic. It was decided he was having continuous runs of PVCs. They sent us home and said to come back if he starts experiencing any chest pains or other symptoms. I have read enough here to know normally PVCs are not concerning. But do they normally come back to back continuously like this for hours? It is now 6 hours later and they have not let up at all.
The whole time he was hooked to this monitor his heart rate stayed in the 50's, with an occasional drop into the 40's. Even during these episodes. Wouldn't PVC's cause an increase or change in the heart rate?
And while the nurse was originally hooking him up to the monitor she said "Wow, I can SEE them!" meaning you could see his heart pounding and those funny quivers, just by looking at his chest!
One more question...............will his ICD have recorded any of this?
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