why is electrophysiology such a bastard?
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I find blood gas, acid/base and renal medicine MUCH worse. Electrophysiology has never bugged me that much. So I'm  not much help, sorry.
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I couldn't agree with you more. Isn't it pathetic how lame these idiots are? I mean come on, if you can't decide weither to tell the man, then why in God's name did you get preggo in the first place you morons.  And the poor baby is the one who suffers the ultimate price for there ignorance and stupidity. Unbelievable.\n\nGreat question by the way.
71569
I agree with earlthek and babydoll. Electrical synapses in the body that affects the polar imbalance.
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PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN TO VK!!! I Have tachycardia and have had to deal with it since 1997, at least that is when it was diagnosed,and it has to do with your sinus node , your hearts electrical system. It is usually treated with beta blockers that have to be taken daily to slow and strengthen the heart. If the problem continues, then there is a procedure called cardiac ablation that will "burn" all of your bad electrical path ways and usually your cured!!
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I'd rather see if I could hold my breath forever whilst holding high-voltage cables and trying to hum all of Wagner's Ring Cycle...note perfect.  Although I was born in CA, I'm now living in Scotland, thank feck.  I am keeping my eyes on that shower of bastards however.  I know a man here who is a semi-retired military advisor, with the highest security clearance who has worked over there many times and he says that the Iraqis are far worse off now than before, and yes, all this is for the oil.  Shocking.
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Ok... I read the answers previously posted and they all sound reasonable close to the truth, so I'll leave them be.. they did fail to mention how a person is actually killed by a lightning strike... So I'll answer this for you...\nYour body uses the flow of charged ions to control many processes (i.e. Muscle movement, nerve signalling).  The flow of charge is more commonly known as electricity.  The average membrane potential in a human is -70 kilojoules(kJ), and the channels in your cells membrane can be triggered by an impulse of only about 20 kJ.  So when you get a current through your body with a potenial of thousands of volts... obviously there is going to be a disruption of the charge gradient.  Depending on the path of the current through the body, the effects will vary... the most dangerous path is for the current to travel through your heart.  Since your Heart is a muscle and is is controlled by an "electrical" signal, this extreme voltage can cause an over fibrulation of the cardiac muscles and essentially render then useless... kind of like if you were to take a slinky and stretch it out as fa as you can... its not goign to contract again, and is not something that can be easily fixed.  Hope this helps!
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You mention that you have seen several doctors and had several tests, but have you been to a Electrophysiologist ? This is a cardiologist who only specializes in diseases and disorders relating to arithmia's.While there may be several causes to your symptoms sometimes the only way to find out difinitavly what may be causing these fluxuations in your heart rate are two tests,one is what they simply call a tilt table test.simply put they strap you down to a table (only so you won't fall) and they monitor your vitals laying completly flat and start to tilt the table both forward and backwards (as if they were tipping you up side down)this is often done when your sypmtoms are caused when you go from sitting to standing.this could be caused also by a sudden drop in blood pressure from standing,the other test is is a Electrophysiology (E.P. Study)\nThe procedure involves inserting a catheter – a narrow, flexible tube – attached to electricitymonitoring electrodes, into a blood vessel, often through a site in the groin or neck, and winding the catheter wire up into the heart. The journey from entry point to heart muscle is navigated by images created by a fluoroscope, an x-ray-like machine that provides continuous, “live” images of the catheter and heart muscle. Once the catheter reaches the heart, electrodes at its tip gather data and a variety of electrical measurements are made. These data pinpoint the location of the faulty electrical site. During this “electrical mapping,” the cardiac arrhythmia specialist, an electrophysiologist, may instigate, through pacing (the use of tiny electrical impulses), some of the very arrhythmias that are the crux of the problem. The events are safe, given the range of experts and resources close at hand and are necessary to ensure the precise location of the problematic tissue.\n\nOnce the damaged site or sites are confirmed, the specialist may administer different medications or electrical impulses to determine their ability to halt the arrhythmia and restore normal heart rhythm. Based on this data, as well as information garnered before the study, sometimes the specialist will proceed to place an implantable cardioverter device (ICD) or a pacemaker or will perform radiofrequency ablation. In any case, the information proves useful for diagnosis and treatment.\n\nThroughout the procedure, the patient is sedated but awake and remains still. Patients rarely report pain, more often describing what they feel as discomfort. Some watch the procedure on monitors and occasionally ask questions. Others sleep. The procedure usually takes about two hours. The patient remains still for four to six hours afterward to ensure the entry point incision begins to heal properly. Once mobile again, patients may feel stiff and achy from lying still for hours. \n\nI have several arythmia disorders that i was born with and have been through these tests litterally over 50 times in my life,and while it may sound scary and painful it isn't ,you will receive sedation and pain medicine.Plus the info they can learn from these procedures in some instances can be life saving.Now i'm not saying you may have something life threatning.it may very well be something as simple as anxiety related but if it is bothersome enough that it scares you as much as it seems to i think i would see one of these doctors just to be on the safe side.
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Pt is one of the best, but you really just need something more  noble than what you're seperating.  just look at a chart of standard electrode potentials to pick your best
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Well, Eric, you've got to understand; anything I tell a retarded monkey fish baby like yourself is just going to go over your head anyway. So, I suggest you talk to your own personal spaghetti monster and find those answers on your own! And SHUT UP BACK THERE, YA HOOLIGAN!!!
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The EKG estimates the net vector (in two dimensions) of the electrical activity of the heart; from the direction that the V1 lead looks (Above and to the right of the heart, as I recall laying out the electrodes years ago), the electrical activity is going away from the lead--towards the feet, or in the QRS part (the really big deflection), it's going from the AV node toward the tip of the ventricles.  That would be read as a negative direction.\n\nRemember, at every instant in time, the EKG is recording the equivalent of the dot product between the actual vector of the flow of current (so to speak) in the heart, and a vector that is created by connecting the leads in question.  For the V1 lead (a precordial lead), the leads connected to the limbs are used as a single lead, sort of grounding things out between all four of them (think of it being a lead somewhere behind the belly button, if you want), and then measuring the dot product of the electrical vector and a line connecting the V1 position with that.\n\nA little vector algebra makes this a LOT easier!
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Where exactly is this RYT Hospital?  And where is this alleged Dwayne University (a web search turned up nothing--other than the RYT Hospital stuff)?  Furthermore, what self-respecting scientist would actually publish a graph made in Excel?  And what the hell are those graphs supposed to be showing?  The data is nonsensical.\n\nSorry folks, this is all a joke.  There is no pregnant human male.\n\nI'll take that 10 pts, thank you very much.
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why are jerks like you so stupid?
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In general, it takes two conductors to make a circuit.\nThe electricity needs an 'in' and an 'out' door.(figurative)\n\nA standard cattle fence will not kill you under normal circumstances. It is designed to not kill.\n\nThere are so many variables in the possible circuit that was supposedly made here.\n\npressure, surface area, wetness of skin, voltage, current delivering capacity of the power supply, location on the body as related to the brain and heart, location on the body relative to the other contact point, resistance to ground, frequency, duration, voltage drop on current rise, interference of gloves/boots/clothing, et cetera\n\nSince reptile skin is drier than mammal skin (I think) and the animals corraled were larger, I expect the fence would be meaner than a standard cattle fence.\n\nI have sometimes freaked people out by making sure my shoes are dry, and I am not grounded in any other way, and touching  a single buss of a building panel. ≤277V AC 60Hz. Although this is surely not the smartest thing ever done, one cannot even feel it.\n\nThere is a way that you could get blasted by a single conductor, but I will not confuse the issue too much more by explaining it fully. Unless you ask.\n\nIn summary, it would be very possible to have a wide range of outcomes, from death to not even knowing, in my opinion.\n\nIf you like math and science:\n\nthe best simple equations would be:\n\nE=IR\nVoltage(volts) equals current(amperes) times resistance(ohms)\n\nWhere most of the variables listed above affect resistance.\n\nH=I^2Rt\nheat(joules) is equal to current(amperes) squared times time(seconds)\n\nThe heat of vaporization of water is ≈40,700j/mol\nYou also have to figure in the temperature rise from 37C to 100C\nIf you boiled a mole (18cc) of water it would expand to a volume of greater than 22.4 liters right, ouch. (since this volume is based on standard temperature)\n\nHow much heat was generated, across what volume of cellular mass(water)?\n\nHeat destroys cells by bursting(boiling) them, later, given sufficient energy, the charring starts(even if it seems instantaneous). Of course, if your heart stops, or you lose some other critical brain function, or if you fall badly, it would not even have to go that far to kill you.
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kills brain cells dude
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here's comaboy calling names again. the stuck egr is a vacuum leak, it's not the exhaust making it die. do me a favor and punch yourself in the face. insulting people over the wire is about as manly as boy george
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That's messed up...I think it's just a physiological coincidence:/
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Honestly I think we can't really distinguish that way. The functions doctors perform are different than the functions performed by electrical engineers. Both are smart in their own way. You said you "worked with some doctors who seem to be dumb in matters relating to logic and math". Well...similarly...there should be so many engineers who don't have a clue of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and so forth. Why should they? I have a degree in electrical engg myself but i dont feel I am any smarter or dumber than doctors. All are equal in their own ways. \n\nWhen you are a doctor, there are certain things you focus on and practice on. Likewise, being electrical engineer, you focus on and practice on certain other details. \nThe two professions require thinking in two different ways (sometimes).\nAlso, we can't judge the entire humanity by seeing a small sample of people. \nSo, the simple answer to your question (from my perspective) is NO. We can't compare and judge two different professions. :-)