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Wife, mother, grandmother, and nurse.

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  1. What is the term for this condition?

    So here I am. Sheesh. I don't know anymore than I did when I started this thread. Oops! Yes, I do know more! I learned about pulse deficit, pulsus paradoxus, and pulsus differens! Yes, I talk to myself and I answer back!
  2. What is the term for this condition?

    Well I had an EKG, a holter monitor test, and and echocardiogram. It took the doctors **** a month to read the tests. The print out on the EKG said that it could not rule out an anterior infarct. The doctor said that the EKG print out was wrong be...
  3. What is the term for this condition?

    Yep, I think that you're right. I found this little note on a website for doing cardiac assessments: APICAL RADIAL PULSE Checks Peripheral Perfusion One Nurse Checks Radial Pulse One Nurse Checks Apical Pulse Normal: Radial = Apical Poor Perfusion :...
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  5. What is the term for this condition?

    Thanks for the information Kiddonurse. I know that I have some serious heart palpitations that awake me from my sleep and sometimes I get pressure in my chest. I just want to know if it is mental or physical. Whichever it is, it has got to be trea...
  6. What is the term for this condition?

    The nurse didn't say. She just said to keep my 2D Echo appointment. I'm going to be really irritable waiting for that day. It isn't until July 18th. The stress from waiting could make me stroke out! :angryfire I keep thinking that I may have POT...
  7. What is the term for this condition?

    The nurse didn't say. She just said to keep my 2D Echo appointment. I'm going to be really irritable waiting for that day. It isn't until July 18th. The stress from waiting could make me stroke out! :angryfire I keep thinking that I may have POT...
  8. What is the term for this condition?

    Well the preliminary report is: Lowest heart rate - 64; Highest heart rate - 141; and mean - 90; and one pvc. No SVT. They have to let a cardiologist read it to let me know anything more. It didn't help that I didn't have any real bouts of palpi...
  9. What is the term for this condition?

    Well the preliminary report is: Lowest heart rate - 64; Highest heart rate - 141; and mean - 90; and one pvc. No SVT. They have to let a cardiologist read it to let me know anything more. It didn't help that I didn't have any real bouts of palpi...
  10. What is the term for this condition?

    Update: I'm going in tomorrow to get the Holter monitor. I'll let you know what the results are.
  11. What is the term for this condition?

    To those that suggested that I asked the doctor about a wearing a holter monitor: Ok, I was told to advocate for myself as I would a patient (good advice btw). I called the doctor's office today and I spoke with her nurse and told her about my symp...
  12. What is the term for this condition?

    It was Mag Ox. I don't understand why they didn't put me in the hospital overnoc so that I could be monitored. What does your hospital consider a critical magnesium level to be?
  13. What is the term for this condition?

    Also, it's kind of like "If it isn't written, it wasn't done." Get's nurses in trouble all the time. :stone
  14. Sleepless on the night shift

    Stretched Thin, I'm glad that you made this post! I'm going to print out all of the responses and have my family read it. Maybe, this will help them to understand how I feel, and why it's so hard for me to go all of my children's school functions a...
  15. What is the term for this condition?

    I'm supposed to be getting a 2D Echo done in July. I don't know if that will show a conduction problem or not. It could be done on a day when my heart rate is normal...you know what I mean? Oh well, I'll let you know what I find out. All of the ...