Word: heartbeating
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...team continued CPR, then paused for a third time. One doctor felt a faint carotid pulse, another felt a femoral pulse. The blood began to flow on its own. Outside, the ambulance had pulled up. "As soon as his limb came through the door, we got a heartbeat," Miller says...
Over Father's Day weekend, Cheney strapped on a Holter monitor--basically a portable ECG machine--to produce a 34-hr.-long recording of his heartbeat. The monitor revealed four distinct episodes, each lasting just a second or two, in which the ventricles of his heart beat too fast. The situation is dangerous only if it becomes permanent. "The heart doesn't actually stop," says Dr. Eric Prystowsky, president of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. "But it beats so fast that no blood can flow through its chambers." Unless a normal rhythm is re-established, death follows...
...years, two major studies have shown that patients with a medical history similar to Cheney's whose ventricles also beat irregularly are much less likely to die suddenly if a device called an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is placed under the skin below their collarbone. The device monitors the heartbeat and emits electrical signals to slow down or speed up the heart as needed...
With the device in place, the Vice President's prognosis is good. Patients with an irregular heartbeat who get these mechanical aids cut in half their chance of dying from a cardiac event...
...yoga?the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body?you initiate a process that turns the fight-or-flight system off and the Relaxation Response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms...