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1. What is the term for this condition?

   Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

   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...

2. What is the term for this condition?

   Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

   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....

3. What is the term for this condition?

   Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

   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...

4. What is the term for this condition?

   Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

5. What is the term for this condition?

   Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

   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...

6. What is the term for this condition?

   Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

   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...

7. What is the term for this condition?

   Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

   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...

8. What is the term for this condition?

   Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

   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...

9. What is the term for this condition?

   Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

   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...

10. What is the term for this condition?

    Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

    Update: I'm going in tomorrow to get the Holter monitor. I'll let you know what the results

11. What is the term for this condition?

    Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

    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...

12. What is the term for this condition?

    Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

    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

13. What is the term for this condition?

    Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

    Also, it's kind of like "If it isn't written, it wasn't done." Get's nurses in trouble all the time.

14. Sleepless on the night shift

    Palpitations replied to stretch thin's topic in General Nursing

    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...

15. What is the term for this condition?

    Palpitations replied to Palpitations's topic in General Nursing

    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...