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Hello everyone!
Thank you all for posting under the first thread I started regarding my husband's surgery.
He was brought to the EP lab on Friday morning, about 30 hours after completion of the first surgery. He was not doing well, and was hesitant to sign the consent forms. When I arrived, and spoke to the EP doctor that we had NEVER met before, and he said he was going to install the pacemaker leads through the coronary sinus (which had been nixed by both the surgeon and the cardiologist), I agreed with my husband to postpone the pacemaker installation until we could all be reading from the same page. (That paragraph is making a very long story, short.)
So here we are, a week out. He is in the step down cardiac unit. He has been doing fairly well, although yesterday he was really quite punky, and today they gave him a blood transfusion, which frankly made him at least look better by the end of the day. They are also giving him insulin (he is NOT a diabetic), and have changed his heart meds, as his heart rate is all over the place. He has tachycardia most of the time (rate over 100), even with the beta blockers, which they have now increased. That of course, set off the alarms, for bradycardia (which is WHY he needs the pacemaker in the first place). The original EP doc is coming in tomorrow, and hopefully we can get the pacemaker in within the next few weeks.
So, that is my update, and I am sticking with it! Hopefully, my next post will be that he is home, and doing fine.
Marybeth
Thank you all for posting under the first thread I started regarding my husband's surgery.
He was brought to the EP lab on Friday morning, about 30 hours after completion of the first surgery. He was not doing well, and was hesitant to sign the consent forms. When I arrived, and spoke to the EP doctor that we had NEVER met before, and he said he was going to install the pacemaker leads through the coronary sinus (which had been nixed by both the surgeon and the cardiologist), I agreed with my husband to postpone the pacemaker installation until we could all be reading from the same page. (That paragraph is making a very long story, short.)
So here we are, a week out. He is in the step down cardiac unit. He has been doing fairly well, although yesterday he was really quite punky, and today they gave him a blood transfusion, which frankly made him at least look better by the end of the day. They are also giving him insulin (he is NOT a diabetic), and have changed his heart meds, as his heart rate is all over the place. He has tachycardia most of the time (rate over 100), even with the beta blockers, which they have now increased. That of course, set off the alarms, for bradycardia (which is WHY he needs the pacemaker in the first place). The original EP doc is coming in tomorrow, and hopefully we can get the pacemaker in within the next few weeks.
So, that is my update, and I am sticking with it! Hopefully, my next post will be that he is home, and doing fine.
Marybeth