The prime minister was admitted to hospital at lunchtime on Sunday suffering from an irregular heart beat.
Downing Street has confirmed that Tony Blair went to Hammersmith Hospital's coronary care unit after he felt unwell.
BBC correspondent Clarence Mitchell said Mr Blair was kept in for five to six hours but has since left the hospital.
He said doctors established that he had an irregular heart beat which causes fluctuations and palpitations.
A procedure known as a cardio conversion was carried out, he said.
Acute admission
Senior hospital sources have told the BBC that Mr Blair was admitted suffering from supra ventricular tachycardia - a condition where the sufferer feels very unwell, with serious heart irregularities and shortness of breath.
It is understood he was an acute admission, as the condition needs to be dealt with quickly, rather than by appointment.
Medical sources say a sufferer would have been treated either with chemicals or an electric shock to rectify their heartbeat quickly.
They would then have been kept in hospital for some hours to assess their response.
wtf....
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They have their terminology messed up. Cardiac irregularities are not called "tachycardia". Tachycardia is a racing heart. Irregularities are called fibrilliation. I'm sure many of you have hear the word "defibrillator", which is what the electrical shocking machine is. Same thing as a pacemaker, as well.
Tachycardia and vent-fib are two very different things.
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well... that means one of two two things, hospital lies badly or the bbc's medical correspondent is a dumb ass...
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he must have been under a hell of a lot of stress...
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He's also been targetted for assassination by some Russians, I believe.
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
Perhaps a little unfair, one impression I always got from Tony Blair was that he truly believed that he was doing the right thing, regardless of my own opinion on the matter.
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From today's Metro. Please excuse me for not transcribing the entire article. I promise they're not out of context:
(emphases, and most typos mine)
Doctors quickly established that Mr Blair had arrhythmia - when teh heartbeat is too slow, or irregular and causes fluctuations or palpitations. A procedure know as a cardioversion was carried out
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Senior hospital sources said Mr Blair was suffering from supra-venticular tacycardia - a condition where the sufferer feels very unwell, with serious heart irregularities and shortness of breath. The illness is reaosnably common and, although uncomfortable, is generally benign
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In most patients, supra-ventricular tachycardia is triggered for no obvious reason but other cuases include heart disease or high blood pressure It is not thought to be linked to executive stress
There's also much on what a good shape Tony keeps himself in.
I'm refraining from commenting on his politics in this thread, as I think it's irrelevant.
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