Woo, waves & hills.

[BenThom-Wood]

I must be a nightmare patient but to be honest I don’t care.

I’ve just guessed the email address of the consultant electrophysiologist who maybe wants to see me. At the start of each week I phone up & tell them my availability. Last week he was on call this week he’s not.

Anyway, my mother has now sent me a few pages of a book she’s reading about patterns & changes. One section mentions ventricular fibrillation. It seems the heart beats in a wave but if a different wave (spiral) comes along, it displaces the regular wave & causes the fibrillation.

I don’t quite understand all of the 3 pages but it seems in 1972 researchers got an animal’s heart up to 600bpm. With a spiral wave like a turbine.

This is fascinating as it makes sense to my logical mind. The question I now have is what causes this other wave?

[BenThom-Wood]

Interesting, white noise for the heart’s spiral waves?

physicsworld.com/a/mechanis...

[BenThom-Wood]

Haha Hidden ! You may well be right but the chance would be a fine thing, Shanksy’s pony & I are well know these days!

[BenThom-Wood]

#HuRah! I’ve got an email back from the electrophysiologist which means my guess worked again! He says he was on call last week & he’ll call me this afternoon. Things are looking up.

[Alison_L in reply to BenThom-Wood]

Well done, Ben! He knows you'll only keep bombarding him with emails and phone calls if he doesn't talk to you. I hope the call is useful - but don't expect too many answers to the wave/spiral question

[BenThom-Wood in reply to Alison_L]

Thanks Alison_L , I always play nice with my specialists until they say something which contradicts with something another has said to me. I’m an active patient as it’s quite interesting this cardiac thing.I know next to nothing about spiral waves other than what I can deduce.

My Old Man once said “speak softly but carry a big stick”

I’ve got 2 sticks now so maybe I’ll just keep learning about cardiac things.

[LaceyLady in reply to BenThom-Wood]

Good four you! I challenge my consultants too, but I’m a qualified Complementary Therapist of 25 years, sooooo. I question my drs too, if they don’t like it, then maybe they’re hiding something 🤷🏼‍♀️