Whittington Suffered a Heart Attack? Or a Mild Heart Related Event?

[leftchick]

I am confused as I am sure is the intention....

Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060215/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_whittington

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident suffered a mild heart attack Tuesday after a shotgun pellet in his chest traveled to his heart, hospital officials said.

Harry Whittington was immediately moved back to the intensive care unit and will be watched for a week to make sure more of the metal pellets do not reach other vital organs. He was reported in stable condition.

Whittington suffered a "silent heart attack" — obstructed blood flow, but without the classic heart-attack symptoms of pain and pressure, according to doctors at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial.

The doctors said they decided to treat the situation conservatively and leave the pellet alone rather than operate to remove it. They said they are highly optimistic Whittington will recover and live a healthy life with the pellet in him.

Asked whether the pellet could move farther into his heart and become fatal, hospital officials said that was a hypothetical question they could not answer.

[tanyev]

1. Maybe it was a heart related program activity.

[baldguy]

3. jinx

[leftchick]

4. exactly!

:rofl:

[tanyev]

6. Some of these things just write themselves, really.

:toast:

[baldguy]

2. He's experiencing

mild heart-related program activities.

[Jacobin]

5. Next it will be 'just gas'

[panader0]

7. A friend of mine suggested that it would be good if he died.

That way Cheney would be rendered ineffectual from now on.

[0rganism]

9. It's one less "pioneer", anyway

My sympathies for Whittington stop where his politics begin.

[0rganism]

8. just call it a "myocardial infarction", and everyone instantly tunes out

I love this bit:
"doctors said they decided to treat the situation conservatively and leave the pellet alone rather than operate to remove it...Asked whether the pellet could move farther into his heart and become fatal, hospital officials said that was a hypothetical question they could not answer."

Well, that's "conservative situation treatment" to a tee: do nothing, and pretend it can't get worse.

[Judi Lynn]

10. If he appears less alive at some point, will they tell anyone, or will

they admit later he has decided to return to his "home" to spend more time with his "family, and is "incommunicado" due to his need for privacy?

[leftchick]

12. great point Judi

a major cover up is in the works. Too bad we have no reporters interested. :(

[Pirate Smile]

11. Hmmmmm. What does this remind me of?

weapons of mass destruction-related program activities v. WMD

[leftchick]

13. ya mon!

:smoke:

[Thtwudbeme]

14. If they cathed him, he was not getting enough 02 to his heart

Blood flow was somehow impaired.

He had a heart attack, plain and simple.

The "Atrial Fib" that you keep reading about is actually fairly common in older people, and Bush Sr. was defibbed for this at Bethesda, or Walter Reed in 1990 or 91---Or '89...my memory isn't that great. Sometime around there.
That's an arrythmia that is caused by another cell kicking in in the atrium and firing instead of the Sino something or other.

Anyway---he had a heart attack. That's why he was put in ICU and cathetorized.

All this stuff I just posted is from memory from paramedic school.

Steph