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heartbeat-eras · 2 months

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Exercise….Again… how do you think she went this time? (Read to the end (or skip) it’s worth it)

So after last time I was told that my heart probably freaked out as I was failing at normal human needs like food and sleep. So better equipped I went out today to try again and slow.

Just a walk… maybe a preset “hike” on the treadmill… HRM linked to see the rate easy. Ecg - in case a decent trace was obtained. Stemoscope taped to my chest - a hybrid erbs spot which actually got good sound despite movement. I felt like a lab rat but was ready to go.

Choose a trek. One looks easy… but didn’t check the stats. Instant 10 grade incline. It’s ok. We’re walking at 3km/h. Easy pace. Listening to may heart in my ears. The sound is good. I’m surprised. I can hear her picking up speed and my breathing getting faster and deeper. But I feel good.

At some point I jump off the treadmill to check the ecg and the sound come recovery time. You will hear her drop. That is not the recovery. She needs a bit more pushing. I increase the speed as my RPE is comfortable. The HRM registers in the 170s and not pushing further. I still feel fine and it’s been about 20 mins. I know I said I wouldn’t run and would take it easy. But I was feeling ok. So I reduce the incline to 0 and crank up the speed. This is the point where the recording cuts out as you can just hear my feet pounding and not my heart. Little by little I increase the speed until we hit 188. She then drops to 182 and keeps climbing and dropping between the numbers. I decide to push a bit more. We haven’t hit 190 in 5 years to that was the goal. Pushing into a sprint, it takes her about a min to realise what’s going on. I’m watching the rate on the screen 186, 189, 192. I jump off, heartbeat pounding as fast as I’ve ever heard her. I catch my breath for a few seconds and realise I should be screen recording my ecg. She’s slowed down a bit by this point but you can see she really seems to like beating in the 140s. 😂

This time I felt fine. No dizziness. A bit quicker recovery from the 180s - 190s. 🥰

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heardatmedschool · 3 months

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“What a stress test is for the heart, pregnancy is for the pancreas.”

About gestational diabetes.

#medicine #med school #medblr #pregnancy #gestational diabetes #obstetrics #cardiology #stress test #pinned

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ecgekg · 2 months

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enjoying his exam

#ecg #male patient #ekg #heart monitor #electrocardiogram #heart exam #electrodes #stress test

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jauzhouse · 2 months

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Hello out there! This is my first post, as you can see English is not my native language, so I try my best. Please be kind and let me know what do you think 😊 if there's someone who likes to read this in Spanish DM me 🫀

1. The Stress Test.

Universidad Europea. 10:23 am.

It was an ordinary day, I went to the clinic to get my pre-season stress tests. My muscle fat percentage was correct, my weight was within the FIA standards allowed me to, the resting electrocardiogram showed as a result that my heart rate was 80 bpm, my blood oxygen saturation was normal, everything seemed to be in order, until I started the last round on the treadmill.

I was already at level 9, my heart rate was already at 180 bpm, I had kept that pace for the last two levels. I felt fine until I started to feel a strong pressure on my chest which I tried to ignore and continue with the test, I needed to get to level 10. After a few more minutes the feeling of not being able to breathe became present and with this anxiety and worry caused my heart rate to shoot up to 210 bpm, the doctor asked me if everything was okay, but it was getting more complicated to be able to breathe, my vision began to blur and the pressure on my chest became stronger and stronger.

The doctor stopped the treadmill and the nurse helped me get off of it to a stretcher, on which I was immediately connected to a monitor to see my heart rate which was already at 220 bpm, tachycardia.

I began to hyperventilate, the nurse placed an oxygen mask on my face in an attempt to regulate my breathing, with one hand I held the mask tightly as if this was to expel more oxygen and enter directly into my lungs while with the other hand I pressed my chest tightly on the left side as I felt my heart beating hard against my chest.

They couldn't control my heartbeat, so the doctor decided to try cardioversion. He took both paddles of the defibrillator, put gel on one and rubbed the other paddle over it, placing one on my right pectoral and the other on my left lower ribs, charged to 100J, made sure no one was touching me and performed the first discharge. My chest rose when I felt that electric shock, my heart rate did not sow down, the doctor recharged now to 140J, performed the same procedure and discharged. Once again, my body twisted upward once I received the shock, my back hit the stretcher violently as the discharge was finished.

I quickly went into cardiac arrest, the last thing I remember is the nurse removing the mask from my face and starting compressions on my chest.

To be continue?