AF often recurs.(Heart health: ask Dr. Zipes)

Medical Update | November 1, 2004 | Copyright

Reader: In 1993, I was in AF and a cardioversion was attempted. I cleared the operating room at 11:00 a.m. with the AF gone. Hospital staff put a heart monitor over my sternum that had stainless steel wire loops holding it together. About 7:00 p.m. the AF returned. I have a theory about the event, and why the cardioversion failed.

The monitor is actually a radio; electric devices have wires in them that carry electricity, the antenna is in the overhead of the hallway outside the hospital room. Any wire that carries electricity has magnetic forces circumferentially ...

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