I’m closer to him than I am to anyone else. The HealthCheck UK Live presenter has a son from a previous relationship. Because this is not just any patient. Chris makes programs about science, health and medicine for the BBC. Sort out your hearing!
DR CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN: Tears are streaming down my masked, visor-covered face. Home About. My colleagues decided that the only way to return the heart to its normal rhythm was by shocking it with a powerful electric current – a procedure called DC cardioversion, which is similar to the defibrillator used to restart the heart after a cardiac arrest. Chris Xand The Twins Projects. You cannot be entirely certain it will spring back to life unaided.I knew all this and at that moment, it hit me hard. But there seems to have been lasting damage.Since the cameras stopped rolling in early May, Xand has had another episode of extreme heart palpitations, landing him in hospital. Xand' van Tulleken and Christoffer 'Dr.
We began filming, and yet privately, Xand was suffering strange symptoms – breathlessness and heart palpitations, albeit mild.
with his slightly younger twin brother Chris, and the Channel 4 show How to Lose Weight Well. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group I just hope I never have to.People who contract Covid-19 and flu at the same time could also have a far more severe illness. He is my brother.
I watch as the body of the man in front of me, surrounded by highly skilled A&E staff, jerks and almost leaps off the hospital bed as a burst of electricity surges from the pads taped to his chest. Aside from the horrendous death toll, I’m left wondering how many survivors of severe infection have been left struggling with debilitating after effects such as irregular heartbeats – as Xand has been – or severe breathlessness. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. 393-404 Covid-19 is completely different from any other illness we have ever seen, writes the medicOne patient featured in the documentary is Florentino, a Portuguese restaurateur from London. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook.You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. He’s currently taking medication to stablilise the heartbeat, but at some point in the future, he may need heart surgery to destroy the damaged tissue.Covid-19 is completely different from any other illness we have ever seen. He swears, his face contorted.We all turn our eyes to a monitor that shows his heart has stopped beating – then, after what feels like an endless, agonising wait but is actually just a few seconds, it slowly restarts, reaching a normal rhythm.As an oxygen mask is put on his face by a nurse, he seems calm as he comes to, eventually mustering the energy to ask: ‘Did I say anything embarrassing?’ Suddenly, tears are streaming down my masked, visor-covered face. It attacks not only the heart and lungs, but the gut, kidneys, brain and other organs.During the documentary, I asked one of my colleagues, Dr Phil Gothard, how he thought the virus could have affected Xand the way it did.Phil speculated that perhaps there were mini-blood clots deep inside his lung tissue. Alexander 'Dr. Before we started filming in late March, Xand fell ill: it was classic coronavirus, writes his twin brother ChrisAnd at that moment, my professional demeanour, something every medic strives to maintain in even the toughest situations, gave way.Fear, anticipation, anxiety and finally, relief.
Then there is the disturbing evidence that the virus can cause strokes in otherwise relatively healthy people – such as Chuck, whom we meet in the film.The 48-year-old mental-health support worker suffered a massive stroke just ten days after contracting Covid-19.