![]() ![]() Gil Salazar, an emergency physician from UT Southwestern explained what happened next: Within seconds of the collapse, medical staff picked Peverley up and hustled him down the tunnel. Teammates yelled and banged their sticks to get the attention of refs, trainers, doctors, and anyone who would listen. Rich Peverley finished a shift not even halfway through the first period and skated back to the bench. What the hell happened on the Stars’ bench? ![]() Drugs that don’t allow you to increase your heart rate aren’t going to work for an athlete, hence the decision to ablate. While afib can be treated with drugs, they’re not perfect either, and they can have side effects. The success rate of ablation varies depending on what study you look at, but the consensus is that at around two years 60-80% of people are still symptom-free. After an ablation there’s nothing to keep an athlete from returning to their sport assuming they’ve gone four to six weeks without recurrence of their arrhythmia. The problem areas are then ablated using radiofrequency pulses (essentially burning the spots) or cryoablation (freezing them). Once the catheter is in place, an electrophysiology study is done, where electrodes on the end of the catheter measure the electrical activity in the heart during the arrhythmia. Peverley had an ablation, a procedure where a catheter is threaded up into the heart through vessels in the leg in order to ablate (destroy) the source of the arrhythmia. The odds of sudden cardiac death are already doubled during physical activity, and hockey is a sport with a lot of very intense activity in short bursts, which also increases cardiovascular risk. Afib is something a lot of people live with (on anticoagulation), but in someone like Peverley, it had to be fixed. The ventricles are responsible for pumping blood out of the heart to the lungs and the body, and they’ll keep doing their job, just irregularly as they follow the irregular impulses sent down from above by the pissy atria. Blood standing still is blood that likes to clot, and clots are things you don’t want in your body. That increases the likelihood of stroke because blood doesn’t zoom through, it swirls around in the atria. So about Rich Peverly - atrial fibrillation (afib) is when you have a pissy little spot in the heart that gets the rhythm out of whack.- Jo Innes September 13, 2013Īfib is exactly what it sounds like – the atria (upper chambers of the heart) don’t squeeze in a nice organized regular manner – they fibrillate (quiver). ![]()
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