CLEAR!!!!

Today we had a lady who was in atrial flutter (a heart arrhythmia where the top chambers of the heart are beating at a faster rate than the bottom chambers of the heart), and after doing a quick transesophageal echocardiogram (sticking a probe down her throat to get a look at the heart through the esophagus to make sure there were no clots in there) we hooked her up to defibrillator and.....CLEAR!!!! She was fixed....

Before:

 -flutterbug-

During: (see far right for the shock)

 

-electrifying-

After:

-normal-sinus-rhythm-

It's amazing how a little jolt of electricity can just reset your beat...and they say white girls ain't got no rhythm ;-)

 I heart Cardiology