• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    This occurred a while back. I was standing at a nurses station, when the technician watching the heart monitors announced that a patients heart rate had jumped from 80s to 140s

    For those who don’t know, parameters are 50-100. 40s if you’re an athlete. And the heart rate is generally allowed to go to 129, in a hospital, if you have no symptoms.

    This individual jumped from 80s to 140s. This being a significant change, staff ran to the room to check the patients well-being and found this patients girlfriend riding him in the hospital bed.

    The question you should ask is how much privacy do they want?

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      29 minutes ago

      40s for athletes? I’m “only” a hobbyist gym goer and my RHR is in the mid-30s, which my doctor confirms is normal for someone that does a lot of cardio. That would make me think real athletes are even lower