For some patients, Dr. Smith can treat their cardiac arrhythmia with medications. When taken exactly as prescribed, medications can work really well. Plus, they can be used in patients with arrhythmia to help prevent heart attack and stroke. These are the different drugs Dr. Macy may use for treatment. Antiarrhythmic drugs Tachycardias and premature beats […]
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Song lyrics are full of talk of heartbeats. But one in particular gets Dr. Smith’s attention: My heart skips a beat. Yeah, that’s not love. That’s arrhythmia, the medical term for an irregular heartbeat. Arrhythmia doesn’t necessarily mean your heart is beating too fast or too slow; it’s just out of normal rhythm. You could
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You don’t usually give your heartbeat a second thought. Sure, maybe after you’ve run up a flight of stairs and you can feel your heartbeat in your neck, then you notice it. But most of the time it’s just there. Until things get out of whack. That’s where Dr. Smith comes in, when your heartbeat
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With our sedentary lifestyles, it seems like everyone would want to have a slower heart rate. After all, when a person is overweight, their heart has to work harder. And isn’t aerobic exercise intended to lower our heart rate? Yes…but not too low. If your heart rate is too low, you have what is known
While we all hope our heart goes flutter some time in our lives, Dr. Smith is more concerned about atrial flutter, which occurs in the right atrium. While atrial flutter itself is not life-threatening, if left untreated it can lead to atrial fibrillation and stroke. What is atrial flutter? Atrial flutter occurs when an abnormal
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Every day your heart beats about 100,000 times. Think about that. What other kind of device could you count on to deliver so much work for something like 85 years and never be replaced? That’s the miracle of our hearts. You’d think that making your heart beat less would be helpful. Less work must equal
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