UNPRECEDENTED FAA LOWERS BAR FOR PILOT HEART HEALTH
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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Is This a 0.2 Interval?
A 0.2 interval to 0.3, or sometimes I'm reading it as 200 milliseconds to 300 milliseconds. That indicates a good possibility of significant conduction system disease in the heart. It's also been clearly associated with in this one study at Harvard, a 50% increase in mortality of all causes. And it doesn't mean anybody's likely to drop dead as a rule. But as you said with Josh, we're dealing with planes full of people here and we can't be monkeying around with the heart like this.
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