MUSINGS
50M, LBBB It doesn’t hurt, is entirely safe but still there was no need to wire him to the little box and then record the signals from his heart. p, QRS, a T. A throbbing knee that kept him from the Y, needed to be fixed, was all they thought was wrong with him. But on the ECG they found a stubborn wave that took too long to crest, and on his echocardiogram his ventricles big as blimps, half-hearted at their job. When he gets the call the last thing on his mind will be a TKR.
JOSEPH GASCHO, M.D. Penn State Milton S. Hershey College of Medicine Hershey, Pennsylvania [email protected]
doi: 10.1111/pace.12648
©2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 902
July 2015
PACE, Vol. 38
50M, LBBB It doesn’t hurt, is entirely safe but still there was no need to wire him to the little box and then record the signals from his heart. p, QRS, a T. A throbbing knee that kept him from the Y, needed to be fixed, was all they thought was wrong with him. But on the ECG they found a stubborn wave that took too long to crest, and on his echocardiogram his ventricles big as blimps, half-hearted at their job. When he gets the call the last thing on his mind will be a TKR.
JOSEPH GASCHO, M.D. Penn State Milton S. Hershey College of Medicine Hershey, Pennsylvania [email protected]
doi: 10.1111/pace.12648
©2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 902
July 2015
PACE, Vol. 38
