Interesting Article from 1975 Deke Slayton Afib January 18, 2019 02:50PM |
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Yes, this is known history. Deke was selected for the Mercury program but never flew until ASTP (Apollo-Soyuz Test Program), the last flight of an Apollo capsule and the famous, one-and-only, Saturn-IB launch atop the "milkstool" platform at Kennedy Space Center's pad 39-B (39-A was already in work for Shuttle at the time).
Digitalis and quinidine? You see how far treatment has come for AF in 40+ years. If Deke could've had an ablation, maybe he could've gone to the moon. Who knows.
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Digoxin is most certainly still widely used - here in the UK anyway. So lots and lots of our doctors obviously never read a med journal. I was actually threatened by an Accident and Emergency doctor that I would be evicted from their hospital if I didn't agree to taking it. I left willingly. Subsequently a private consultant cardiologist at a famous London chest hospital told me that he felt my heart was normal and drugs were unnecessary. He also remarked about another drug - flecainide - which he said was a "dirty" drug which he never prescribed after two of his patients died after taking it.
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I wouldn’t touch digoxin with a barge pole. (Although it does arguably have some usefulness in heart failure in the more elderly.)
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