Pacemaker failure to capture ekg

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Avatar m tn The only reliabe way to see the pulse is on an EKG or through the pacemaker. If a machine is counting it and there are premature beats, heart rate is often underestimated. This is a common reason referring doctors ask for a pacemaker to be checked. Next time the heart rate is counted low, have them check an EKG. That is my best guess as to what is happening.
Avatar m tn s pacemaker) from there it goes to a node that regulates a normal rhythm, etc...an EKG should be able to diagnosed either condition Also, it could be the thyroid gland, etc. I had a faster than normal heart rate at rest (115) and that was due to a coronary artery disease. There are many causes for tachycardia and would need more information to be more informative.
Avatar f tn A week later I was released with 7 medications and a LifeVest with plans to get a pacemaker after the 1st of the year. The heart failure team and cardiology team want to try a pacemaker before looking for a new heart. I pray the pacemaker works wonder. Anyone else with an EF below 15% and have been able to make improvements to increase your EF? If so, what has worked for you?
Avatar n tn If you have them daily, it should be easy to capture on EKG, so your doctors can rule in or rule out a cardiac cause. If you have pauses in the heart rhythm, treatment is usually a pacemaker.
Avatar n tn Your mother should have an EKG to identify any electrical rhythm problems notwithstanding a defib/pacemaker. Heart's electrical system is sensitive to medication and the interaction of chemical elements, electrolytes, sodium, etc. can disrupt an electrical impulse and cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest causes heart failure and would be secondary to cardiac arrest (an electrical dysfunction). From the information you provide that appears to be the situation.
Avatar n tn My pacemaker programmes to 65. If the EKG rated 65 that's the paced rhythms. You can see the pacing spikes all over the place. If I got the rate over 65 (hardly), the pacing spikes also appeared everyway. When I was set rate to 70. My EKG rated 69, there were no pacing spike appeared. All my nature heart spikes were short like a mung beans. But the doctor interpreted that EKG - paced rhythms. I can't see any pacing spike tho. I am not a pacemaker dependent.
Avatar n tn Last week, she had a mini stroke (lost ability to speak for about 15 min where she forgets words but came back and she was normal) , took her to ER to be checked, an Xray shows an enlarged heart, EKG shows incomplete bundle block and Echogram was normal, no blood clots, no blockage, blood tests are also normal, no enzyms of heart attach or anything. They also do a TEE and AngioCardiogram no heart blockage but they are saying she has an EF of 26 % or less.
754751 tn?1241304207 My mother-in-law will be 90 in April. Her doctor wants to put in a pacemaker to stabilize her heart. She has lung cancer, quite a large mass but apparently not very fast-growing. She has diabetes, which might mean amputation in her future, and she has Alzheimers that is no long mild but not very advanced. She often recognizes my husband. Some days she seems to really enjoy life. I cannot understand the doctor's recommendation.
Avatar f tn A pacemaker, even if functioning correctly, cannot always prevent worsening heart failure and death. The pacemaker will continue to deliver electical impulses to the heart, but if the heart muscle is not responding, or the impulses are not being transmittted normally in the heart, the heart may stop beating altogether or may be unable to beat strongly enough to provide enough blood flow to the brain, and death can result.
Avatar f tn My daughter was born with several heart defects.a pacemaker was implanted after surgery because she had complete heart-block. She thrived after her surgery and lived life to the fullest.On June 20,2009, when she was three and a half years old, she tragically fell to the ground. She was rushed to the hospital, but they were unsuccessful in reviving her.It was later determined at autopsy that her pacemaker lead had fractured. It was a Medtronic pacemaker. I have been in disbelief since then.
1318351 tn?1313381421 Hey sorry to hear about your problems, usually an ekg test is to determine certain things like, a lack of flow to the heart muscle, fast, slow or irregular rythm (you mentioned a hr of 30's...that could be a sign of bradycardia..but im not a cardiologist so i cant say for sure), heart failure (not pumping forcefully enough), parts of the heart that are too big, congenital heart defects (birth defects), problems with the heart valves, pericarditis (inflammation of the sac around the heart).
Avatar n tn The abnormal EKG can be related to a loss of atrial-ventricular synchrony in patients with a pacemaker. Or abnormal EKG can be due to an artefact (equipment problem), etc. If there seems to be a problem with ischemia, a stress test would be appropriate as an EKG is not very relaible for that dx..
Avatar f tn Doctors will not operate on AAA or pacemaker replacement due to frailness. What can I expect as the battery on the pacemaker fails?
Avatar n tn Unless you were having symptoms an EKG would not be the best tool to capture an event. Your best bet would be an event monitor. These are usually given for 21-30 days. You really should have this checked out. The symptoms you describe regarding your throat...I feel this choking or tightening sensation when I'm in rapid afib or atrial flutter. You have never been given medications for this? Why not?
255722 tn?1452546541 The following excerpt was taken from an article that was copied from this web address: http://www.healthandage.com/Home/gid2=2089 This has to be one of THE BEST descriptions of the causes of arrhythmia I have EVER SEEN. For all of you who are trying to understand what is going on in there, here it is!!! Kudos to the author!!!!! Your Heart's Clock Regulates Its Rhythm - Part XIV Ed G.
Avatar n tn Potentially something wrong with your lungs (pulmonary disease). When you look at an EKG, you have different waves: P (first bump), QRS (the different parts of the highest peaking wave), and T waves (right after the QRS). Right before the P wave happens, the atria contract due to the sinoatrial node ("pacemaker") in your heart, which is a bundle of nerves stimulating the heart to beat. It's potentially something going on with that as well.
Avatar n tn Has he wore a 24 hour heart monitor? That would give you a good indication of what his heart is doing. I have a pacemaker and had quite a few tests first but I am 36.
Avatar n tn m 53 and have had that finding on every EKG ever done and the cardiologists have all said to ignore it. However, when the computerized EKG picks it up, it will show the results as borderline abnormal, don't get too worked up over this.
Avatar m tn I get light headed sometimes but not after or while any heart problems just at random times
Avatar m tn To test the heart's electrical activity requires leads to be placed on the chest to capture the impulse in real time. I don't know of any other test but an ekg to measure electrical activity, but the ekg can be taken under various conditions and time intervals. A holter (ambulatory ekg) to record at different times while the indivitual performs daily activities, a stress test with ekg for measurement at rest and then with exertion, and just the ekg while inclined and at rest.
Avatar f tn An EKG is only a tool to help diagnose a medical problem (usually electrical impulse integrity) and not very good for chamber dimensions. The left atrial enlargement will require an echocardiogram to validate. If significant it could indicate high blood pressure or mitral valve regurgitation (back flow of blood) or opening stenosis (restricted size of opening). The mitral valve is a one-way passing of blood from the left atrium to the lower ventricle to be pumped into circulation.
Avatar f tn Is your uncle a heart failure patient? Furosmide is medication as a diuretic to prevent congested heart failure. The medication should provide relief for shortness of breath, and the only association with shortness of breath would be that medication is not effective and there is some pulmonary edema and the heart is not pumping effectively.... the blood is backing up into the lungs and causing SOB (relative to the diuretic ineffective).
Avatar m tn I am a 52 year old, male, with congestive heart failure. My output is approximatley 70%. I have passed out in the heat many times at work, and I have been treated for fluid - polmunary edama three times. I was diagnosed in 2,008. I am pre-diabetic, need two new knees - due to viral and osteo-arthritis. I have been told that my last C.T. Found three dozen polips - of which six are are about 11mil. In size. Doctor would like to remove all. My qusetion is about my angina.
Avatar m tn t find anything. Originally I thought a pacemaker may be of some benefit, but the article I saw said that with Atrial Fibrillation, it only works for people that are Tachy-Brady (and some limited circumstances) Please see the following link (copy and paste if it's not clickable). Hope this is of some help, you've been through so much. http://www.webmd.
2093880 tn?1334813768 So far structurally my heart looks fine, so I guess that's good. Although I'm guessing my uncle that passed away's heart look fine too because he had a Cardiac CT done a week before he died and he and my mom both felt exactly the same before dying. I don't smoke, I don't think 2 of them did either. All were pretty active, like me. My mom worked out and played sports as did my uncle and myself.
Avatar f tn Often worse in athletes. A resting EKG can give a hint anyway, if the PQ time is borderline long you are more likely to get it.