Re: SVT and cardiac arrest??

Posted By bob on April 20, 1999 at 17:02:19
I recently read in one of your responses that there is a small chance of cardiac arrest in someone whose heart rate got up to the 250's in an SVT episode.  Is this correct?  I've had an SVT attack where my heart rate got up to the 220 area and when I called my electrophysiologist because I wasn't converting back to a normal rhythm, he didn't seem overly concerned.  He actually told me to take propanolol (I'm on Tambocor), wait 45 minutes and call back if I still hadn't converted.  Is he not being concerned enough?  I'm a 26 year old male, otherwise very healthy.  It just concerns me when I get conflicting views, know what I mean?  Thanks again for your time.   Bob

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Posted By Chris on April 21, 1999 at 20:22:01
Dear Bob, I had SVT and was first diagnosed with it in august 98.(i'm 20)
i had an ablation proceedure that didn't work the first time, and i had
it again 3 months later, and now it has worked. Going through it all was
hard, and it's very rare that you have to have the proceedure twice. They
had 400 people with my case of svt come in for the proceedure, and only
5 out of the 400 had to have it twice. I'm now free of svt, and i suggest
you consider the ablation therapy. (My heart got up to about 280bpm when i
had it but it never did anything else. The only reason it could result in
cardiac arrest is if you had a high colesterol level or coronary heart
disease.)










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