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Have Muscular Dystrophy, Unable To Stand. Taking Motrin For Pain, Having Flutters. Is Motrin The Cause ?

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My mother in law is currently in the hospital. She has muscular dystrophy & last week she tried to stand & her knees gave out (not the first time) & she broke her ankle & leg -the same leg. At first, she wouldn't take anything but Motrin for the pain, but after a couple of days of the pain she decided it would be better to take something so, they put her on Morphine. I don't know how much she is getting it or how often, but now all of a sudden her heart is fluttering & has an abnormal arthmia. So they are going to preform a endocardiogram. I would like to know how this is normally preformed because I was told that they were going to go down her throat. So there are a few questions here. Could the Morphine be giving her these flutters? How is a endocardiogram preformed? & Is there an alternative or any noninvasive ways?
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endocardiography is a method of knowing about the movement of heart chambers and valve functions and ventricular functions also, it can tell about the ejection fraction also, it is done by placing a probe in the esophagus which emits sound waves of ultrasonic frequency , the waves reflected by the heart is received and displayed in a computer monitor.echocardiography can be done in place of it for prelimnary diagnosis.morphine can cause bradycardia or tachycardia.
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Have Muscular Dystrophy, Unable To Stand. Taking Motrin For Pain, Having Flutters. Is Motrin The Cause ?

endocardiography is a method of knowing about the movement of heart chambers and valve functions and ventricular functions also, it can tell about the ejection fraction also, it is done by placing a probe in the esophagus which emits sound waves of ultrasonic frequency , the waves reflected by the heart is received and displayed in a computer monitor.echocardiography can be done in place of it for prelimnary diagnosis.morphine can cause bradycardia or tachycardia. thankyou for consulting HCM