{"id":1513,"date":"2020-02-04T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:05:13","slug":"cardioversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/04\/cardioversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardioversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They just took her back to the OR where they&#8217;ll be doing the procedure. They will do a transesophageal echocardiogram to check for blood clots before doing the cardioversion (that&#8217;s standard procedure before shocking you out of arrhythmia). If they don&#8217;t find anything, they&#8217;ll move forward and see if they can stop the arrhythmias. The whole process shouldn&#8217;t take very long, so I should be able to post again soon with any update.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hoping and praying that this cardioversion will be enough to get her out and that the amiodarone will be enough to keep her out of arrhythmias. If that&#8217;s the case, we should be able to go home tonight. If they can&#8217;t get her out, they plan to transition her back to her previous anti-arrhythmia drug. That transition has to be done under observation over 48-72 hours. I don&#8217;t know if they can start that immediately, or if they have to wait for the amiodarone to get out of her system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They just took her back to the OR where they&#8217;ll be doing the procedure. They will do a transesophageal echocardiogram to check for blood clots before doing the cardioversion (that&#8217;s standard procedure before shocking you out of arrhythmia). If they don&#8217;t find anything, they&#8217;ll move forward and see if they can stop the arrhythmias. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[21,8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}