She is a 72 yr. old woman, with alzhmeizers disease, with onle 42 pulse rate. Does something need to be done? What could be causing this?
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Q: 72 yr. old woman. Pulse rate 42. What could be causing this? What needs to be done?
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6/12/09 2:55am
If this 72years old patient with alzhmeizers is comfortable other then with her symptoms of alzhmeizers, nothing need be done. Some of the medicines she is on may be the cause, this should be ruled out before trying to find any pathalogical cause.
6/12/09 1:44pm
for me it was new blood pressure medication--they had me stop and get a different one
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