Posted on 01/13/2014 6:27:32 PM PST by machogirl
Maui County police says the late state health director Loretta Fuddy died due to cardiac arrhythmia as a result of stress after a Makani Kai Air plane crashed off of Molokai last month.
An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat.
Fuddy's death has been ruled as accidental.
On Dec. 11, the plane lost power off of Kalaupapa. Nine people were on board the plane including Fuddy. The pilot and seven other passengers survived the crash.
The pilot and a passenger who swam to shore have said Fuddy appeared fine while bobbing in the water after everyone exited the plane and waited for help to arrive.
Fuddy's brother, Lewis Fuddy, says she was healthy and didn't have any known heart problems.
Read more: http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/maui-police-release-cause-of-death-for-fuddy/-/8905354/23912372/-/qt081t/-/index.html#ixzz2qKtA6VTQ
Here’s an interesting answer to that question, from an MD:
“When someone dies of sudden death, an electrical disturbance of the heart called an arrhythmia is most often considered to be the cause. However, an arrhythmia cannot be detected after death since the heart has to be electrically active to diagnose an arrhythmia. An ECG must be done to confirm an arrhythmia, but that is usually not possible before someone dies of sudden death without warning signs. Thus, arrhythmias are usually a diagnosis of exclusion. There are certain cardiac abnormalities that are associated with an arrhythmia, but many people who have arrhythmias have structurally normal hearts. Thus, if you have further questions, I suggest that you contact the medical examiner involved in the autopsy.”
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Heart-Disease/What-does-an-autopsy-uncover/show/868581
I think the relevant thing is that it is usually a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning they arrive at that conclusion by ruling out other causes, but there COULD be physical signs that point to arrhythmia as well, that might be detected by an autopsy.
Here is what Cleveland Clinic says about sudden cardiac death, which they classify as a type of arrhythmia:
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/disorders/electric/scd.aspx
“Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a sudden, unexpected death caused by loss of heart function (sudden cardiac arrest). Sudden cardiac death is the largest cause of natural death in the United States, causing about 325,000 adult deaths in the United States each year. Sudden cardiac death is responsible for half of all heart disease deaths.”
“Sudden cardiac arrest is not a heart attack (myocardial infarction). Heart attacks occur when there is a blockage in one or more of the coronary arteries, preventing the heart from receiving enough oxygen-rich blood. If the oxygen in the blood cannot reach the heart muscle, the heart becomes damaged.
“In contrast, sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the electrical system to the heart malfunctions and suddenly becomes very irregular. The heart beats dangerously fast.”
“What are the risk factors of sudden cardiac arrest?”
“OBESITY”
Long list of many conditions Fuddy may or may not have had or been known to her brother, however obesity is an obvious risk factor for arrhythmia that she had
I had already posted the results of my research on this thread, and to the same party. Thanks for crediting where you got the link. Not.
Lemme see,did she drown?
I got the link from google, thank you very much. I hadn’t seen your post yet, when I posted that reply, because I was still reading the replies on the first page. I don’t read threads in backwards order.
“If either of those two are the case with Fuddy, the corner should have stated in his report as ‘unknown cause of death’.”
Agree w you. As others have pointed out, we haven’t seen the coroner’s report, right? Yet these docs are supposed to be made public once the cause of death is determined.
I won’t hold my breath.
“Thank you, good info. Perhaps the times such condition is relevant is when the patient is under observation by medical professionals prior to death. Since that is not the case here, it suggests the report is worthless.”
I don’t think much of it either. I’ve heard a lot about the toxicology report. When are they going to release that? Never, is probably a pretty good guess. I hope I’m wrong.
Right. Just because I posted it first on the thread on which you and I had a running exchange, that doesn’t mean you saw it.
Right.
Guess not. Or until the report is out?
Planning a heart attack while she was flying and unable to get immediate medical help was pure genius ( cough cough)
The bang of the engine was just what a person who was looking over her shoulder trying to make sure she pleased the won needed to trigger anxiety enough to bring on a heart attack /TF
“Just because I posted it first on the thread on which you and I had a running exchange, that doesn’t mean you saw it.”
You may be trying to be sarcastic, but yes, this is correct, I didn’t see your post. Deal with it.
Isn’t that what they finally determined for Breitbart also? He didn’t have the kind of blockage that would have caused a heart attack; they said it was something with the electrical impulses.
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t potassium have an immediate impact on the electrical impulses in the heart, as well as other potential drugs? I think you mentioned something to that effect earlier, justice.
You saw all my other posts and responded to them but you didn’t see this one. Incredible.
I wonder if the interim health director appointed to replace Fuddy - Gary Gill - who has been the deputy director of the HDOH’s “Public Health and Environmental Laboratories” - has any potential influence over whatever pathologist lab did the tox testing.
We know how reliable some coroner’s offices can be.... cough, cough.
And there are poisons that don’t show up in a tox test, although I’m not sure about how quickly they act. Potassium acts very quickly...
I hope she is resting in Peace. One less person that “the One” has to worry about testifying.
The oddities that plague “the One”.
You pinged me to those posts, genius.
“I wonder if the interim health director appointed to replace Fuddy - Gary Gill - who has been the deputy director of the HDOH’s “Public Health and Environmental Laboratories” - has any potential influence over whatever pathologist lab did the tox testing.
We know how reliable some coroner’s offices can be.... cough, cough.
And there are poisons that don’t show up in a tox test, although I’m not sure about how quickly they act. Potassium acts very quickly...”
Those are excellent questions and observations, Butter. I’d like to know more about Gill. I’d actually like to know a little more about what’s going on w Yamamoto. He sure got passed over quickly, didn’t he? I hope the toxicology report is released. I wouldn’t count on it, though. Secrecy seems to be the rule where Obama is concerned.
Exactly. I was looking up the same info. They can not tell if an electrical disturbance caused the death because they were not measuring it when the event purportedly happened. I would wager she had a normal cardiac pathology. And, given her age, it would be very un-likely that she had an irregular heartbeat and didn’t know about it. And her brother said she did not.
Yes and dehydration.
I can see why you resort to personal insults. It’s all you’ve got left.
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