{"id":18025,"date":"2022-11-14T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/does-your-heart-beat-to-a-different-drummer\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:30:03","slug":"does-your-heart-beat-to-a-different-drummer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/news\/does-your-heart-beat-to-a-different-drummer\/","title":{"rendered":"Um e-mail oportuno e um pacemaker salvam a vida de Mary Louise Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mary Louise Francis, de Dartmouth, chamou a aten\u00e7\u00e3o em setembro passado quando viu na sua caixa de correio eletr\u00f3nico o assunto: \"O seu cora\u00e7\u00e3o marcha ao ritmo de um tambor diferente?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Era uma mensagem de correio eletr\u00f3nico da Southcoast Health a anunciar um webinar sobre arritmias card\u00edacas, e ela tinha-se sentido estranha ultimamente - com tonturas ocasionais e tendo desmaiado recentemente. Um m\u00e9dico das urg\u00eancias diagnosticou-lhe vertigens, mas ela interrogava-se agora se a arritmia que sofrera nos anos 90 teria voltado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"De repente, perguntei-me se n\u00e3o seria isto que se estava a passar comigo\", diz ela. \"Tive uma sensa\u00e7\u00e3o de urg\u00eancia.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A educadora reformada, esposa e m\u00e3e de dois filhos inscreveu-se imediatamente no webinar e marcou uma consulta com o m\u00e9dico que conduzia a sess\u00e3o, Dr. Ramin Davoudi<\/a>Diretor M\u00e9dico de Eletrofisiologia da Southcoast Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Lou, como \u00e9 conhecida, saiu do consult\u00f3rio do Dr. Davoudi com um monitor card\u00edaco que permitia aos m\u00e9dicos acompanhar a sua atividade card\u00edaca em tempo real. Foi quando desmaiou, enquanto falava com a filha ao telefone, que recebeu uma chamada de emerg\u00eancia que lhe dizia para arranjar boleia para o hospital imediatamente, de prefer\u00eancia de ambul\u00e2ncia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Cora\u00e7\u00e3o e Vascular no Charlton Memorial Hospital<\/a>No dia seguinte, a doente ficou a saber que o seu cora\u00e7\u00e3o tinha parado durante 22 segundos, um per\u00edodo que os doentes raramente sobrevivem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Lou sofria de uma doen\u00e7a rara chamada s\u00edndrome do seio doente, que inibe a capacidade do cora\u00e7\u00e3o de regular o seu ritmo card\u00edaco, fazendo com que este abrande, fa\u00e7a pausas e bata de forma irregular. Ela foi imediatamente internada no hospital e, \u00e0s 7h30 da manh\u00e3 seguinte, estava a ser preparada para a cirurgia de implanta\u00e7\u00e3o de um pacemaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Nitesh Sood<\/a>O Dr. Davoudi, o electrofisiologista card\u00edaco que realizou a cirurgia, disse v\u00e1rias vezes a Mary Lou que o Dr. Davoudi lhe tinha salvo a vida ao dar-lhe o monitor. E quase um ano ap\u00f3s a cirurgia, ela retomou a sua vida agitada sem outro desmaio ou per\u00edodo de tonturas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atualmente, \u00e9 presidente da Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Professores Reformados do Condado de Bristol, entre muitas outras actividades. Continua a dedicar-se aos educadores depois de uma carreira como professora, conselheira e administradora nas escolas p\u00fablicas de New Bedford. Tamb\u00e9m leccionou um curso sobre ensino e aprendizagem baseados no c\u00e9rebro no Fitchburg State College e fez parte do Comit\u00e9 Escolar de Acushnet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Como \u00e9 compreens\u00edvel, Mary Lou diz que demorou algum tempo a habituar-se ao pacemaker. Ela sente frequentemente o pacemaker a manter os batimentos card\u00edacos e tem o cuidado de tomar as medidas necess\u00e1rias para garantir que est\u00e1 a funcionar bem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\u00c9 algo pelo qual nos acomodamos, mas \u00e9 um pre\u00e7o muito, muito pequeno a pagar por me ter salvo a vida\", diz ela. \"Devo a minha vida ao aviso dessa sess\u00e3o de informa\u00e7\u00e3o e aos m\u00e9dicos do Memorial de Charlton<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Para mais informa\u00e7\u00f5es sobre o Southcoast Health Heart & Vascular, visite Melhor Cardiologista do Sudeste de MA | Southcoast Health<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6588,"template":"","categories":[1231],"class_list":["post-18025","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cDoes your heart beat to a different drummer?\u201d - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was an email from Southcoast Health announcing a webinar on cardiac arrhythmias, and she had been feeling strange lately \u2013 experiencing occasional lightheadedness and having recently passed out.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/news\/does-your-heart-beat-to-a-different-drummer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_PT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cDoes your heart beat to a different drummer?\u201d - 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