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What Medication Is Suggested For Elevation In The Heart Beat?
my husband's heart rate has been 145 for almost 4 hours now. He had an ablation last summer for vt and it workd for a while but this week it has kept shooting up for the third time now. I gave him an amiodorone and this has not brought it down. His icd is set to go off at 155 and we are looking at that soon i thin. he had surgery for a triple a three years ago and wound up with chf, arrythmia and cardio myapathy and a stroke. He is only 53. do you thinjk he should go to the er?
Wed, 4 May 2016
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Yes he needs this evaluated, at least with an EKG to see if this is just benign tachycardia or a more worrisome arrhythmia
Yes he needs this evaluated, at least with an EKG to see if this is just benign tachycardia or a more worrisome arrhythmia
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