getting zapped

• by gunn308
• 2015-02-14 10:02:55
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How many times have you been zapped by your defib and not needed it? My 5 year old St. J device has whacked me twice each incident involved 3 discharges. First time had a bad lead that was sending false signals the ventricle lead was only 3 yrs. old since day one pacer tech did not like the impedance on that wire. Just last week I was moving some snow and it went off so I stopped 2 min. later it went off again I was doing nothing just standing there Then sat down in truck, and told the young man with me call 911, and 2 min later it kicked me again took a ride by ambulance to emergency i asked rep what my parameters were she hooks me up and says hmmm gotta go talk to EP comes back and says "we don't know how it happened but your threshold was changed to
150 bpm "I said it was 180 bpm when was it changed" she got all evasive and lying through her teeth says "We don't know"
I told her that I knew I had exerted myself more in the past than I did that morning.