Recently my husband who is 32 years old told me, his heart stopped beating. It was suddenly, he then had pain in his chest and he said it was hard for him to breathe. That was before Jan 1, 2008. That is when he quit smoking. Then later on it did it again. Out of the blue. Suddenly. Of coarse his heart starts back. To him at the time it probably seems like a long time before it starts again. I am an LPN I work on a Critical Care Unit. I thought it might be PVC's. But I have never had a patient complain about PVC's hurting or scaring them. When my husband finally told me about this...he was in tears and afraid. My question is do I need to have him see a cardiologist? Or do you think that it is something as simple as some SVT with a pause going back into a NSR? Or a PVC?
I think he goes have some HTN. His grandfather passed from a MI. His father passed from a CVA.
Your Help would be greatly appreciated.