heart rate

“Uh-oh—he’s fibrillating,” one paramedic said urgently.
He pointed to the portable EKG machine, which was going thump-thump-thump very fast. “Get the paddles.”
“No!” I said loudly, startling everyone. The paramedic held the shock paddles, looking surprised. “That’s always how his heart is. It always beats really fast. That’s normal for him.”
I don’t know if the paramedic would have used the paddles anyway, but just then we roared into the hospital emergency bay and all was chaos.


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