I am a 27 y/o male, pretty healthy. I have had an occasional palpitation since the age of 20. This brings me to my current situation. About 4 months ago or so I had a week of frequent palpitations (skipped beats, normal rate). This happened mostly in the early mornings and at night. I saw my primary care giver for a physical and mentioned this to him durring it. He told me that he wanted me to see an electrophysiologist so I did. I was given a thirty day monitor and wore it for most of the time without much. I did have a couple mornings where it caught several couplets and PVC's. My ECG shows what he calls an incomplete RBBB, but most Dr.s I have seen have called it a non specific conduction delay. I do have a B.S. in Emergency Medical Care so have some knowledge of what they are talking about. After being told by the PA at the office that everything was probably o.k., I received a phone call about a week later after they got a copy of my stress test from work last month (no premature beats at all on it). They said that everything looked great, but because of the couplets and my wide QRS pattern that he was slightly concerned and wanted another ECHO and possibly an EP study (the echo they had was from 2006 when I was sent to investigate LVH on my 12-lead which was nothing). The echo was totally normal I was told, but since I have the RBBB and the couplets he is concerned. He says that it is in my best interest to have a EP study to which I agreed, but am scared.
If you had a patient like me, do you think you would advise the same thing. Do you think the risk is justified? (for your patient of course)
Thanks!