Heart Flutters

Open Question: Where have they all gone?

October 26th, 2008 | by admin | Open Question: ventricular ectopy, German Shepherd sudden death syndrom?
My 8 month old German Shepherd underwent anesthesia while being spayed. An irregular heartbeat was found. After a cardiac work up the following was found:
ventricular ectopy
no sign of structural problems
ventricular arrhythmia
Her heartbeat was found to have a grade II/IV heart murmur, weak and delayed pulses, and an irregular heart rhythm.
Apparently there isn’t a cure and one of the first signs may be sudden death. Does anyone have any info on this?

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:55:21 GMT
Open Question: Where have they all gone?
Almost on a weekly basis I read, hear or am told about statistics on all these people dying of one thing or another .
Example:
An average of 114 people die each day in car crashes in the U.S.
More than 20,000 people die from the flu and its complications every year.
There were an estimated 15,517 murders in 2000.
From January 1982 to March 2001, a period of 19.25 years, there were a total of 8,109,000,000 passenger emplacements.
90 people are killed every year in the U.S. by lightning.
…
And those numbers are mainly yearly and not even world wide. Commercials on TV let us know about thousands upon thousands of people dying of one thing or another and the list of culprits is virtually endless from cancer to heart diseases passing by AIDS and other nasty bugs, not counting the wars and other occupational hazards.
My question is this:
If all those people die yearly, and I would estimate, by extrapolation, to be in the order of at least 50 million worldwide every year since WWII, would you think there wouldn’t be much of us left?
And I do take into consideration all the births since then.

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:34:03 GMT

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