Category: svt
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Bad timing
Joe came and picked us up at 2 am from the bar and drove us to thecoffee shop. We decided we could both stay out a little because thegirls were sleeping and Junior was home with them. At 3:30 am wereceived a call from Monti saying Dahlia’s heart was racing again.Sure enough Dahlia had woken…
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Dahlia’s heart
Moments before the variety show evening performance began Dahlia toldJoe her heart was “beeping” fast. I had to manage the backstage area during the performance so Joe had to care for Dahlia. He took her outto the car to see if she could relax and get her heart back to normal.Relaxing wasn’t working so I would…
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Pediatric cardiologist
Dr Hesslein was able to diagnose Dahlia’s issues pretty easily by looking at the EKG they did while she was at the ER earlier in the week. He called her condition “SVT”. In SVT, supraventricular tachycardia, the heart rate is sped up by an abnormal electrical impulse starting in the atria. The heart beats so fast that the…