Army Basketball Coach Dies at 28 of a Heart Arrhythmia
Thanks to all the readers who sent me this story on Maggie Dixon, the Army Women's basketball coach, who died last night of a heart arrhythmia:
I wish that Ms. Dixon had an implantable cardioverter defibrillator like I have that deals with the most deadly of heart rhythms--recurrent, sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. However, the first warning sign for many victims of these rhythm problems is death--maybe that is why there is little publicity about Sudden Cardiac Death. Most of us are not here to make our voices heard. RIP, Ms. Dixon.
Dixon was hospitalized in critical condition after suffering an "arrhythmic episode to her heart" Wednesday at the school, her older brother, Pittsburgh men's basketball coach Jamie Dixon said Thursday.
"She ... went to the house of a friend for afternoon tea where she said she wasn't feeling good and she collapsed," said Dixon, who read a prepared statement from the hospital on Thursday.
He said he had breakfast with his sister earlier Wednesday and that she had apparently been feeling well.
I wish that Ms. Dixon had an implantable cardioverter defibrillator like I have that deals with the most deadly of heart rhythms--recurrent, sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. However, the first warning sign for many victims of these rhythm problems is death--maybe that is why there is little publicity about Sudden Cardiac Death. Most of us are not here to make our voices heard. RIP, Ms. Dixon.
posted by Helen at 1:46 PM
6 Comments:
I have noticed my own heart going out-of-rhythm for several seconds at a stretch at once-every-several-months-or-so intervals since I was a teenager. I'm in my thirties now and had a stress-echo which came out fine. So I guess I shouldn't be worried, but still, it's hard to feel good about these things when your heart occasionally feels like it's doing backflips.....
Johnannarbor,
I hear many people say that they have palpitations etc. and I think, for the most part, doctors find them fairly benign unless, like me, you have had a heart attack. They can even be caused by stress or caffeine.
However, if they continue or bother you, you might ask for your doc to put you on a holter monitor that you wear for a few days or longer--that is how they found that my skipped beats were serious and needed futher attention.
If one is by oneself and experiencing prolonged palpitations or an overly rapid heart rate, it helps to learn some . Sometimes forceful coughing is enough to slow down or regularize the heart's rhythm until medical help can be obtained.
Woops! Above comment should read "it helps to learn some vagal maneuvers." The link is still good though.
ice scribe,
Thanks for the link.
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