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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 83 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Good news everyone!

My heart has stopped a couple of times now... if nobody had actually told me, I never would have known. I have an implant that watches for that now.

Me, waking up in the hospital, fiddling around on my phone. Nurse comes in.

"Hey, were you asleep about an hour ago?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."

"Um... 'thank you'? I don't know the correct response to 'your heart stopped'. Wait, shouldn't the alarms have gone off? I don't remember hearing anything."

"Oh, they go off at the nurses station."

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You could have answered:

“How do you know it wasn’t just beating at 8bpm?”

For context, normal resting is like 40-60

[–] REDACTED 1 points 2 weeks ago

For context, normal resting is like 40-60

No it's not. That's a resting rate for athletes, which does not really fall under "normal", normally that would be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradycardia

It can be a pretty serious heart problem.

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