Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Dave had a check up at the cardiologist office today.

Everything went well even though the doctor discovered one "event" that happened last month. His ICD picked up a reading of acceleration and began to track the heart's activity. Upon investigation, they realized that this happened the day Dave was packing up his car to come home for Thanksgiving break, and probably took the stairs a couple of times instead of waiting for the elevator.

That's ten flights each time.

His heart rate was fine, he didn't even begin to approach tachycardia. The doctor speculated that the heartrate threshold programmed in the ICD was a bit too low for someone Dave's age and activity level, and raised it.

So, he's doing well, the ICD is working properly and Dave doesn't have to go back again until May. Good news all.

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