Prime Minister

Have you herard the news. Our Primei Minister has an Irregualr Heart Beat mmmmmm they mentioned theydidn't know whether he was converted by drungs or electric shock, how comes he gets to go home so quick, so he could Be a AFibber to. If so will he come here.

Babs

Had SVT. Was cardioverted and sent home

Yes, I heard that on the news today....The first thing I thought was....wonder how his diet is....what is his mineral counts.....How about copper and magnesium...........Pretty weird we're all on the same page...

Joe

One type of (irregular) SVT is AF. I hope for Tony it was a less problematic (if there is one?) type of SVT than AF, but if it WAS AF then like Joe says, AF and its treatment will get a higher profile here in the UK.

Mike F.

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[news.bbc.co.uk]

Why oh why cant my consultant be this good to expalin this to me in detail.
I smell money here!

kr
robin
ps and why does people take notice now when some people have been suffering all there lives?

Cus their thick and worried about the economy incase it affects the whole of the NHS. mmmm

Everyone will be rushing to hospital now when they think they have a funny turn lolol

Babs

Does any other type of SVT involve an irregular heart beat? I thought all SVT except AF involved fast steady rates. They talk about him having SVT - his was supposedly 160bpm. But in the same breath they say it was irregular. If it is AF why don't they just say it?


fran

Fran -

They probably don't say it because the word "fibrillation" sounds too scary to the general public.

Lorraine

One article said they didn't attribute it to stress, but that it just comes from "out of the blue." They said there's no reason to believe it will ever occur again. That doesn't sound much like afib to me, although I'll bet that's what they've diagnosed it as.

Lorraine

So does AF come out of the blue. Sky news was saying that it was often attributed to alcohol consumption and sometimes called holiday heart - and often happens when someone has been working hard and goes home to relax for their holidays. They then went on to say it was very common in atheletes and showed TB in the police gym where he often works out... They said someitmes it happens just the once, but if this was not the case there was medications that MIGHT help, if that did not help then they could scar heart tissue with an ablation to burn the rogue cells out.

Sounds very like AF to me....

Fran

One of our Canadian newspapers said that this type (what type??) of irregular heartbeat is very easy to control. What do those reporter people know that we don't??

Like you UK'ers, I hope TB's episode will cause more awareness of a-fib and actually make someone really study the matter.

Also in our paper the other day there was an article about a new drug RSD1235, developed by Cardiome Pharma Corp. that converts a-fibbers in about 30 minutes. This was in the business section, so there was not much medical info. Does anyone know more about this drug?

RK,

This drug, which is only available IV, was first mentioned on the BB by Scott M. back in early May 2003.
[www.afibbers.org]
Google it and you can learn all about it.

PC v54

Methinks Tony is one of us! Hey Hans, what about a complimentary membership for the PM?

Lorraine,

Just what I said to a friend this morning. Fibrillation sure is a scary sounding word to the electorate.

Fran,

Also my thoughts on further deliberation - AF is to my knowledge the only irregular SVT.

Mike F.