posts here focus on a variety of topics all about the heart and how it works
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
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Here’s how to be a “GOOD PATIENT”:
Now, here’s how to be a “DIFFICULT PATIENT”: . .
Continue reading “How to be a “good” patient”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Before surviving a heart attack, I knew virtually nothing about pacemakers (they were just something that old people have to get, right?) and absolutely nothing about the cardiac device called implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs.
In fact, the first time I laid eyes on a person with an ICD was at my 7-week Heart To Heart cardiac support group after I was discharged from hospital.
One of the people in my group was a lovely, athletic 24-year old woman who had been diagnosed with a rare and serious heart arrhythmia called Long QT Syndrome.* Her sister had recently died suddenly due to the same condition.
Continue reading “Do you know the difference between a pacemaker and an implantable defibrillator?”
As I write this, my heart has beaten 2,382,051,24 times since the day I was born.
I also have taken 496,260,675 breaths since that day.
I know this because of a nifty little Beats & Breaths calculator tracker tool that I found online. Continue reading “How many times has your heart beaten so far?”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
During the 1980s, the American Heart Association launched an advertising campaign that asked: “If your husband had a heart attack in bed tonight, would you know what to do?” Even the AHA thought heart disease was strictly a man’s problem back then.
Offering this valuable historical perspective, Kansas City cardiologist Dr. Tracy Stevens reminds us that physicians are still practicing medicine based on cardiac studies performed mostly on white, middle-aged men.
Continue reading “Surprising trends in women’s heart disease”
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