Netanyahu hospitalized
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released Sunday from Sheba Medical Center after spending the night hospitalized for dehydration. The hospital said doctors had completed a series of examinations and found no abnormalities, although they implanted a heart monitoring device so that his health could be further tracked.
“Our diagnosis, at the end of all the tests performed, including the laboratory tests, is that the reason for the hospitalization was dehydration,” the hospital said in a statement.
The medical center said the premier’s heart “is completely normal” and that Netanyahu underwent “a series of comprehensive and routine examinations that are performed while fully conscious, including an electrical test of the heart, all of which came out completely normal.”
The statement said that “at no point was any heart arrhythmia found,” and that doctors “decided to use a subcutaneous Holter, as is customary.”
The hospital said the implantation of the medical device would “allow the close medical professional team of the prime minister to continue regular monitoring.”
The premier was hospitalized on Saturday. A joint statement from his office and Sheba Medical Center at the time said Netanyahu complained of dizziness after spending several hours in the sun on Friday amid an intense heatwave across the country.
Not unusual to monitor cardiac rhythm after a syncopal episode. Back in the old days, a Holter monitor was a purse-sized device, slung over your shoulder, connected to electrodes on your chest. You'd wear it for a week or so.
Things have improved, a lot. Today's monitor is about the size of a small cellphone. The device is adherent to your chest wall, and has a button you can push when you feel anything funky. You wear it for two weeks, and it is shower-safe. Truly remarkable.
But..
Implanted? As in permanent?
I'm not buying it. You don't implant a device if everything is "perfectly normal."
My guess? They put in an AICD.
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I listened to a 70 minute interview with him a few days ago. He's another politician the leftist media has decided to cancel. I am sure there are strong feelings from the culturally leftist masses in Israel that the cancelation is a righteous defense against an existential political threat. The whole western world tends to fight the same culture war battles.
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Hospitalized again:
https://news.yahoo.com/israel-edge-netanyahu-hospitalized-ahead-085215330.html
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Hospitalized again:
https://news.yahoo.com/israel-edge-netanyahu-hospitalized-ahead-085215330.html
@Axtremus said in Netanyahu hospitalized:
Hospitalized again:
https://news.yahoo.com/israel-edge-netanyahu-hospitalized-ahead-085215330.html
See my comments in the original post.
Could still be an AICD (which can function as a pacemaker). No reason to "implant" a monitor.
Ah...
Professor Roy Beinart, senior physician and director at the Davidai Arrhythmia Center at Sheba Medical Center’s Heart Institute, said doctors had decided to monitor Netanyahu because he had suffered from a “conduction disorder,” or irregular heart beat, for years.
He said in a video that the prime minister needed the pacemaker because he experienced “a temporary arrhythmia,” or irregular heartbeat, Saturday evening.
"Pacemakers" don't treat arrhythmias, they treat heart block and slow heart rate. AICD will treat an arrhythmia (such as v-fib, v-tach).
