Things are pretty quiet in the summer so let's go back to an old-school medical reversal in electrophysiology. One I lived through. If you like trials you will like this story
A sentence from pharmacology class to never forget : “ anti-arrhythmics can have a pro-arrhythmic effect “ . Wasn’t there a study on otherwise healthy medical students that surprisingly showed many to have asymptomatic arrhythmias that in patients we would’ve been treating ?
“Arrhythmias documented by 24-hour continuous electrocardiographic monitoring in 50 male medical students without apparent heart disease” (Brodsky et al., American Journal of Cardiology, 1977).
Thanks for looking it up. I guess they would not have been placed on “ the PVC killer “ then ( Sectral ). The now ubiquitous wearables and the implantable cardiac monitors are providing us with exponentially more data and medicalization of “ normal variability “ is to be avoided.
RIP AJ Moss ❣️
A true gentleman and clinical scholar !
All who had the privilege of working with him respected him as a mentor and role model to strive to emulate !
Appreciate the clear writeup, thanks!
Seeing as the article was really good, I'll only award one demerit for the following headline:
"The results shocked the EP community"
;-)
HA!
A sentence from pharmacology class to never forget : “ anti-arrhythmics can have a pro-arrhythmic effect “ . Wasn’t there a study on otherwise healthy medical students that surprisingly showed many to have asymptomatic arrhythmias that in patients we would’ve been treating ?
“Arrhythmias documented by 24-hour continuous electrocardiographic monitoring in 50 male medical students without apparent heart disease” (Brodsky et al., American Journal of Cardiology, 1977).
Thanks for looking it up. I guess they would not have been placed on “ the PVC killer “ then ( Sectral ). The now ubiquitous wearables and the implantable cardiac monitors are providing us with exponentially more data and medicalization of “ normal variability “ is to be avoided.
My pleasure.
Great article. Well written.
What is the point of posting an AI-generated summary of the article and passing it off as a comment?