http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/fake-heart-no-feeling.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:50:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/fake-heart-no-feeling.html/comment-page-1#comment-79264 Anonymous Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/fake-heart-no-feeling.html#comment-79264 Just think about how your heart rate changes with various emotions... Just think about how your heart rate changes with various emotions…

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/fake-heart-no-feeling.html/comment-page-1#comment-79244 Anonymous Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/fake-heart-no-feeling.html#comment-79244 Yes, I too would look to the organic as a basis for this person's symptoms, but not in the thoracic cavity.<br/>Time on cardiopulmonary bypass with the issues of cerebral perfusion and microembolization is a well established cause of changes in cognition, affect, mood, and organic depression. Also consider that this poor fellow is now living the mortal awareness that his heart could stop or malfunction at the very next beat. Something that most of us can know about our healthy native heart, yet have no difficulty ignoring most of the time. Every time he hears the machine click, whir, beep he knows he's not dead --- yet. Yes, I too would look to the organic as a basis for this person’s symptoms, but not in the thoracic cavity.
Time on cardiopulmonary bypass with the issues of cerebral perfusion and microembolization is a well established cause of changes in cognition, affect, mood, and organic depression. Also consider that this poor fellow is now living the mortal awareness that his heart could stop or malfunction at the very next beat. Something that most of us can know about our healthy native heart, yet have no difficulty ignoring most of the time. Every time he hears the machine click, whir, beep he knows he’s not dead — yet.

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