Comments on: Pacing

By: Ellie

Ellie — Sat, 20 May 2006 23:56:27 +0000

Mmmm hmmm …. Remember that old adage … “Treat the patient, not the monitor!”

By: medic5

medic5 — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:11:23 +0000

Yep, PEA with a pacer. That’s why you always have to check that pulse – electronics can fool you!

By: autolycos

autolycos — Mon, 15 May 2006 23:13:21 +0000

Thanks for the reminder. It’s good to hear from more experienced people.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 May 2006 02:18:59 +0000

ssssshhhhhh!

*looks both ways before continuing in a whisper*

PEA with a pacemaker? Are you trying to give the megacode people new ideas? ;-)

By: Asearls

Asearls — Tue, 09 May 2006 15:41:28 +0000

Thanks for this story, it reminds me that we’re moving into an era in which technology will be so highly integrated into health care that hackers, smammers and so on could literally hack, spam and phish their way into your body, yikes. Let’s hope our future pacemakers have spam blockers and anti-virus built in :)

By: DisappearingJohn

DisappearingJohn — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:16:01 +0000

One of the most depressing things I’ve ever watched was back when I was a telemetry monitor tech. We had a patient with a DNR order, who had a pacemaker. He was declining, and family was with him, when he either threw a PE, or something similar, because all of the sudden, he said he couldn’t breathe, and slowly slipped away. His pacer kept his heart going for almost an hour, with the QRS complex getting smaller and smaller, until it finally failed to capture. I was at the monitor, watching, the entire time. I don’t know how long he had a pulse, but his heart was “responding” to the pacer for an hour. It felt almost inhumane to sit and watch that…

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