About Cardiomyopathy

October 23, 2008

Questions about PVC’s

Filed under: PVC — admin @ 8:55 am

My husband got his ICD yesterday and seems to be doing well. Typical soreness in his left shoulder, but the pain medication is helping a lot.

While we were in the hospital, he was hooked up to a monitor and periodically it would flash messages like “Multiform PVC’s” “Run PVC’s” and “Pair PVC’s”. I meant to ask his EP, but forgot. The hospital staff never said anything about the messages, so I’m assuming that it was critical or they would have done something. I tried researching those phrases on the internet without much success. Does anyone know what those phrases mean?