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Wait for it....Dr Joseph Poku talks about issues of dizziness,fainting,shocking a pregnant woman back to life and wait for it he has the happiest laugh ever! Dr. Joseph Poku #electricity #HeartBLOCK #GrinchSyndrome #ExecriseIsKey #HeartArrythmia #StraightFromtheHeart #HeartBeat #BPM #SVT #EKG Clinical Electrophysiologist discusses the cardiothoracic and vascular issues that pregnant women experience and laughs at his own brief tangent as he presents ways to decrease risks and treat heart problems in pregnant women. Our guest cardiologist specializing in electrophysiology gave the true breakdown of the heart and he defined the heart muscle as a pump that is driven by electricity. The electricity supply from the top part of the heart travels through the AV node (the middle toll booth) to the Ventricle (or bottom chamber). When heart is beating too fast or firing extra beats from other parts of the heart then the toll booth can get overloaded and cause the electric signals to bypass the normal toll booth (AV node) and goes down via another toll booth in the heart and this could affect blood pressure and potentially compromise the gas, nutrient, and waste exchange for the fetus that occurs via the placenta. In cases like this it may call for the mother’s heart to be shocked back into normal rhythm. Dr. Poku consistently emphasized the need for the electrical wiring to be in sync. For informational reference, the normal heart rate for an adult was established to be anywhere between 60 and 100 beats per minute, but it was also made known to be on guard for a heart rate that is above 130 beats per minutes when resting because that is a problem. Dr. Poku provides the Cocoa Pods audience with a heart arrythmia perspective and focused on the issues of dizziness, fainting, and shocking a pregnant woman back to life. He designated dizziness as cardiac rhythm disturbances, and during pregnancy it is common to see an exacerbation of arrythmia symptoms which lead to some people coming to the cardiologist for the first time. Fainting spells usually only occur when there has been a history of fainting before getting pregnant, but the fainting becomes more frequent when pregnant perhaps because the increase in volume when the body gets bigger makes one prone to passing out.