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
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