I thought I read that there was no way to determine that after death.
“I thought I read that there was no way to determine that after death.”
There isn’t. Not unless she had a pacemaker or other device implanted that could be interrogated after death. No way. This is just a conjectured cause of death.
You can't. I have atrial fibrillation controlled by a high blood medication which slows and evens out mt heart beat. An arrhythmia can cause cessation of the heart or in my case, a stroke.
An enlarged heart would make tachycardia, followed by ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac arrest a strong possibility. As someone else said, a pacemaker or other implanted recorder would be the only way to be sure.
“I thought I read that there was no way to determine that after death.”
That is correct.... a cardiac arrhythmia is not a static
condition, it’s finding observed real time when a patient
is attached to an EKG monitor. Even if she had been under a doctor’s care and he had observed arrhythmias during an
EKG that is not proof that she had an arrhythmia at the time
of the crash...it’s merely an indicator.
To say somebody died from an arrhythmia is a cop out and not proveable unless their heart ceased beating WHILE attached to a cardiac monitor AND the arrhythmias were observed by a competent medical professional. If not...
it’s just a guess.