James Capehart

Review of Indian River Medical Center Fo...

My wife had an episode of what we think was AFIB. ...

My wife had an episode of what we think was AFIB. I say think, because I'm not sure of their diagnosis. We started a month ago in the ER and they stabilized her and had us follow up with a cardiologist and they had her wear a monitor. We went back to the cardiologist and he said it wasn't AFIB, prescribed bata blocker and took her off her blood pressure medicine.This was one of the hospitals cardiologists. Wednesday evening she had another episode, with extremely high blood pressure. I took her back to the ER and they said she was in AFIB and needed to be admitted to the hospital. That was at 2:00 am, she was finally move to a room at 10:30 am. Other than a floor nurse, no one showed up until the afternnoon and that was an NP. She said she ordered a ecocardiogrm, no one showed up. My wife called theoffice thst did the work and the had no order. Then a hospitalist showed up and immediatly questioned why my wife was not on blood pressuremeds and we told her the csrdiologist stopped them. She reinstated them, but found out later the doses were based on her not understanding what my wife told her. Then they decided not to give her any medication because her thyroid levels were slightly elivated, all the while, my wifes blood pressure was hoovering aound175/125. The a cardiologist came in and wanted to know why my wife was not getting her medication. He got things going and the people finally showed up for the ecocardiogram. With that I went home for the evening. The next morning my wife tells me they are taking her blood pressure every 4 hours which I think was to long of an interval given the high blood pressure and told her to have it done every hour. Then she calls me and says they are keeping her for another 48 hours to monitor het. I got there and talked to the hospitalist and she informed me it was hospital procedure and if we left we would have to pay. Why would I leave my wife in a cardiac ICU to be monitored when they can't even take blood pressure on a 1 hour routine. Because of all this we had her discharged. This was the worst experience I have ever had with a hospital, we are from Michigan and are not sure if we can com back for the wintets with this kind of medical care. We had heard your hospital was not good, but thought it would be better now that Cleveland Clinic took over.