Houston IndyMedia story says Bush "bulge" is a defibrillator

[scottxyz]

http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/35839.php

George W. Bush apparently is wearing a medical device for "persons at risk of cardiac arrest." It is a LifeVest wearable defibrillator. He started using it sometime after his January 2002 fainting spell, which was attributed to choking.

[Doctor_J]

1. let me be the first to write

you mean * has a heart?

[unpossibles]

3. yes

and it is two sizes too small

[MARALE]

5. He's a bad one!

[48pan]

2. Look closely at the photos.

Both Bush and Kerry were wearing bulletproof vests. This is just tinfoil hat stuff.

[papau]

6. Only the bush photo's show the box on the back - dating back to 2002

A receiver for commands from Rove fits the "Let me finish" Bush comment made to his chest.

The innocent heart problem appears to be the best they have that they can use to cover it up.

[FurryCritter727]

7. body armor

Both were probably wearing body armor.

Some people need to take their meds.

:crazy:

[RedSock]

14. denied by white house

body armor was denied by the white house 1 or 2 days after the first debate.

[Warpy]

4. This CCU nurse says it isn't.

If he needed one, he'd have it implanted.

External pacers/defibs are temporary. They're very painful. If he needed one, he'd have been hustled into surgery quite quickly. It's about a two hour procedure, and they wouldn't have made him wait until Monday to get it (which is why those things are used, at all). We have to keep patients heavily sedated to allow them to tolerate external units.

He's been wearing that thing on his ranch, during debates, during speeches. It's obviously a descrambler/transmitter for that thing in his ear. Every waking moment that man has is scripted, directed, coached.

Oh, he's a sick man, but it's neurological, not cardiac.

[bmbmd]

12. I don't think it's a defibrillator either.

But he may well have a cardiac condition.

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1024.htm

Holiday heart syndrome is extremely common in binge drinkers.

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[wicket]

9. They are referring to the LifeVest

A defib worn on the outside as a vest.



http://www.lifecor.com/about_lifevest/when_to_use.asp

I'm surprised that you, as a cardiac surgeon, has never heard of them :wtf:

[bobbyboucher]

13. You got no cred whatsoever.

Surgeon? Whatev.

[allalone]

10. bull

why would he only need it while wearing a suit and making speeches etc. I have seen pics of the back of him in shirtsleeves and gee, no box or wires. We are paying for the best medical care in the world for this guy. Don't you think they would use somethin g a little more subtle. gimme a break.

[RedSock]

15. not true

actually there is a picture of him driving his truck in short sleeves and he has the box on his back (picture is shot from behind the cab). it was posted several times during the whole "is bush wired" debate?

[allalone]

17. it's not true that I've seen pix of him in shirtsleeves

without it? how do you know what I've seen? are you following me?

[allalone]

11. and besides, where is the wire going up the neck

in the pic of medical device?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. bullshit!