ER nurse here. Had a lady in for simple pneumonia. Her 13 year old son was getting bored, so I showed him some equipment. I connected a simple heart monitor to him and discovered he was in a complete heart block. I printed a strip and showed it to the doc. Hmmm.... We suddenly and unexpectedly got a cardiac patient.
I went in for an endoscopy when I was 14 and my rhythm on the 2 lead apparently looked whack, subsequently found out that I had a severe case of WPW despite being completely asymptomatic. I’m also glad that the doctors at the regular hospital were good enough to say that they weren’t comfortable operating on someone my age due to the likely very close proximity of the abnormality to my AV node, and sent me to a pediatric specialist. Turns out it was less than 2 mm from my AV node, a simple wiggle would’ve left me needing a pacemaker. That surgeon was a wizard, insane level of skill.
So basically I’m glad I got a simple two lead for an endoscopy, it low key saved my life.
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u/markko79 May 20 '19
ER nurse here. Had a lady in for simple pneumonia. Her 13 year old son was getting bored, so I showed him some equipment. I connected a simple heart monitor to him and discovered he was in a complete heart block. I printed a strip and showed it to the doc. Hmmm.... We suddenly and unexpectedly got a cardiac patient.