{"id":34084,"date":"2013-01-11T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=voices&#038;p=34084"},"modified":"2013-01-11T12:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T17:45:39","slug":"you-know-you-need-a-pacemaker-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/01\/11\/you-know-you-need-a-pacemaker-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know You Need a Pacemaker When&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CardioExchange welcomes this guest post from\u00a0Dr. Westby Fisher, an electrophysiologist practicing at\u00a0NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago\u2019s Pritzker School of Medicine.\u00a0This piece originally appeared on his blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/drwes.blogspot.com\/\">Dr. Wes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; your pause, when held vertical, exceeds one third of your height:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34085\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/01\/VerticlePause.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34085\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34085\" title=\"VerticlePause\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/01\/VerticlePause-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strip recorded 1.5 years after implant of an implantable loop recorder showing new 27-second pause (period between large black boxes on the strip represent six seconds each).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Fisher shares a handy tool for identifying whether one needs a pacemaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrophysiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}