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Palpitations and Your Period
Why skipped heartbeats always seem to happen at the same point in your menstrual cycle. For those articles where there’s such overwhelming study findings that I feel comfortable presenting information as fact, I won’t put a “byline” at the top of the article. You’ll see there’s a byline on this article. And with that byline I’m [...]
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NFL Player Dies from Cardiac Arrest - Are You Next?
The news is just permeating the sports world this afternoon, that 26 year old Gaines Adams, defensive end for the Chicago Bears, died from cardiac arrest this morning.Whenever news of a professional athlete dying from heart-related causes hits the breakfast tables and living rooms of people living with various benign or more serious heart conditions, [...]
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Esophageal Spasms and Arrhythmia
This is written from my personal experience and based on my own web research. I’ve experienced PVCs for at least the last decade. During that time I’ve spent months having 5-10,000 PVC per day, every single day. I’ve also spent months where I’ve lost count of the number of days between feeling even a [...]
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Using an SSRI to Treat Arrhythmia
You’ve been having these strange sensations in your chest. You’ve taken your pulse and you’ve felt the skips. The jumps. You’ve called your doctor and he’s run any number of tests, from as little as a stethoscope to your chest to as much as an ECG, Holter monitor, event monitor or echocardiogram. And [...]
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Pulseless Electrical Activity
To be able to understand the term pulseless electrical activity (PEA), it’s important to first recognize the difference between a tactile pulse and the indication of a heartbeat on an ECG tracing. Just because it appears that the heart is beating as it should on an ECG does not necessarily mean blood is being [...]
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Asystole
Also known in ECG terms as a flatline, asystole (pronounced ay-SIS-tuh-lee) is the absence of any discernible activity in the heart. While asystole may be considered an arrhythmia, this arrhythmia is characterized by a complete lack of rhythm, patterned or otherwise. During asystole there is no blood being pumped through the body’s organs [...]
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Congestive Heart Failure
Congestive Heart Failure (or simply Heart Failure) is a condition where the heart is unable to supply the rest of the body’s organs with sufficient quantities of blood. All of your bodies organs need blood to carry in nutrients and carry out waste, and without frequent deliveries and pickups, your organs will stop working the [...]
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Cardiology Acronyms
ABG -arterial blood gas testAED - automated external defibrillatorA-fib - atrial fibrillationARVD - arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasiaAV node - atrioventricular nodeAVNRT - atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardiaAVRT - atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia or atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardiaBID - “bis in die” (Latin), which means twice per dayCABG - coronary artery bypass graft surgeryCAD – coronary artery diseaseCHF – [...]
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Automaticity
As you might expect, automaticity, when talking about your heart, has to do with your heart’s ability to function automatically. That is, without receiving outside signals instructing it to contract. There is a specific cluster of cells in your heart that are designed to set off rhythmic electrical signals that spread throughout the rest of [...]
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Systole
(Pronounced SIS-tuh-lee) Systole is the contraction phase of the cardiac cycle.* The word comes from the Greek systol?, from systellein to contract, and is usually associated with ventricular contraction, not atrial contraction.When your blood pressure is being taken, your systolic pressure (the first number) is the measure of the pressure in your arteries when it [...]
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