How It Feels for Someone Else to Control Your Heart

Issue #27 of "What's Her Problem?": What happens when someone with an ICD, who is 100% pacemaker-dependent, needs to get an MRI?

Part 3 of my 5-part series of Heart Month posts, bringing awareness to a variety of topics in cardiology.

This week’s questions:

Can you imagine what it would feel like to lose control of your heartbeat? Is there a medical test that you have avoided, for fear of it being uncomfortable or unsafe?

Links/References:

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/weird-science?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/interview-series-lisa-salberg-founder?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://www.foundationsem.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/EKG-II-U12-Instructor-Resource-Packet-2.pdf

https://www.medtronicacademy.com/features/mri-surescan-feature

https://www.medtronicacademy.com/features/mri-surescan-feature

Related Posts:

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/what-if-there-had-been-another-treatment?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/holding-my-heartbeat-in-my-hands?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/penicillin-anaphylaxis-and-the-allergist?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/interview-series-lisa-salberg-founder?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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