NIPS

New to this site can anyone tell me what NIPS means pls
Tks

7 Comments

Google

by Marie12 - 2014-01-19 04:01:25

I almost always do a google search first, however, sometimes you just want to hear it from first hand experience. I've done a lot of research on ICD's but none of the sites visited told me the things that I learned here. Example - yes, ICD's move quite a bit at first, yes you sometimes can feel the leads and yes, they can protrude quite a huge amount. These are just some things that I found out on this site that never came up in any research I did on Google.

While I waited 13 days in the hospital to be implanted, I asked if there was someone who had an ICD that would be willing to talk to me about what it was like. No one was available. It wasn't until I found this site that I got some REAL answers. Hospital staff can only tell you the theory not the "life".

To Sylvia1 - ask away any questions you have.

My thanks to everyone who has taken the time to respond to my questions. You have helped me get through these past few months.

And there you have it

by Grateful Heart - 2014-01-19 05:01:07

Google has nothing on real life experience, I agree Marie.

Ask away Sylvia.

Besides, without all the questions, you guys would be out of business. :)

Grateful Heart

NIPS

by Baz - 2014-01-19 08:01:42


Was there really any need for that comment Inga.

This is the site for Pacemaker questions afterall.

Perhaps we should all do Google searches and not bother asking on this site ever again.

NIPS

by golden_snitch - 2014-01-19 08:01:48

"Non-Invasive Program Stimulation (NIPS)

When a patient has an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), they may have a change in their health or medications that can potentially interfere with how the device works. If your physician needs to evaluate to make sure that your ICD is functioning properly to stop a life-threatening arrhythmia, he or she will schedule you for a NIPS. Similar to a cardioversion, a NIPS is a brief procedure where your heart is stimulated into a rapid heart rate and your ICD delivers a shock or rapid pacing sequence to restore a normal rhythm. Your physician can then adjust the ICD's programming, if needed. You will be under anesthesia for the testing and able to go home a few hours later." (source: http://www.cchosp.com/cchpage.asp?p=401)

I sometimes really wonder why people don't do a simple Google search before posting a question here...

Inga

Internet use

by Selwyn - 2014-01-19 08:01:51

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
nips-To seize and pinch or bite:
National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS)
Non-Investment Products Code(NIPS)
National Implementation Plans(NIPS)

And another 3 million + hits
Confused?

I suggest we nip this one in the bud before it goes further!

Yes...

by golden_snitch - 2014-01-19 10:01:17

You simply search NIPS + pacemaker, and you get there. And, Baz, yes, I think there was need for this comment. Others have also often posted that people should use the "search button" on this site more often, because soooo many questions have already been answered numerous times. Goes into the same direction. When you come here and post a question, someone else spends time on answering it. I'm always happy to do that, and have really explained a lot to members here, but sometimes I just cannot help but wonder why a Google search isn't done first. Don't know, if this is only my approach, but I usually try to find things out myself first, and only ask for help when I can't find an answer.

Inga

I'm w/ Inga

by donr - 2014-01-19 12:01:48

Too many members ask before doing a search of any kind.

NOTE THAT THEY ALWAYS GET ANSWERS!!!!!!

For a Newbie, it's understandable to jump in & ask what to old hands is a simple question. It gets to be old hat to see the same questions asked time after time & often by long time members. Coming here is like learning a new language & is daunting for the Newbie who walks into the ER today & comes out tomorrow hosting a PM or ICD. Then they are inundated w/ all sorts of words they have never heard before, about a device that they swear was invented by the Devil.

Inga has expressed a feeling that has to affect more people than just her. I will back up her statement that she always answers questions - even the repeats she is talking about.

For the seasoned members of the PMC - If I may deviate from the party line & Inga - the PMC SEARCH engine sucks! I cannot even find my own posts/comments w/ it sometimes, even knowing the key words I am looking for. Google, I have found, is superior to our own SEARCH function - EVEN for searching our own archives. Enter a few key words in Google, followed by "Pacemaker Club" & it is amazing what jumps out at you.

Maybe, just maybe, we need a FAQ section on the premises.

The search engine is used, however. so someone knows how to make it work. Inga has a comment she posted about a med that has 2900+ reads. Now we know that did not happen during the max of 7 days on the active page. I have a couple that have over 1000 reads, again not in 7 days.

So, to give the Devil his due, searching happens! Perhaps more than we old hands realize. As of 30 seconds ago, we had 22,429 members - not all thrashing about w/ activity. A bunch we know are "Lurkers," just reading "Stuff" daily & never writing. Then there are all the visitors - "Tire Kickers," if you will, who drop by to see what we are like. A lot of them probably shake their heads at what we are like.

I can just see the visitors reading this thread & muttering to themselves - "Why can't you play nice in the sandbox?". Ah, but we are.

Face life, however - we are NOT all seasoned researchers. Many of us are old hands at crawling the web. (Others are old hands at crawling pubs - or bars) We are all different in our familiarity w/ the Web & its search idiosyncracies. I will admit that I spend a fair amount of time w/ my old friend Google (Not Barney, for those in the US who are old enough to recall him from the comic strip days of youth) to either get answers for unfamiliar questions or to confirm that I am not playing beyond the fence in left field. I do not feel bad about that - I've witnessed my Cardio turn to his nurse at the computer & tell her to look something esoteric up for him. I've seen an ER Doc whip out the PDA & look something up.

Can any of you remember asking a teacher or a parent what a word meant & they said "Look it up in the Dictionary."

I guess that's what Inga is saying.

A show of cyberhands, please - How many households even own a Dictionary today? That's what I thought! Not very many.

Don

You know you're wired when...

Your ICD has a better memory than you.

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