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07-08-03, 21:05
Dr. Kelly & The
Mysterious Chest Electrodes
By Chris Tryhorn
The Guardian - UK
8-7-3
Heart experts today said it was "unusual" for someone to wear electrode pads while walking following revelations that government scientist David Kelly had four of the special monitors on his chest when his body was found in an Oxfordshire wood.
Dr Kelly - the BBC's source for a report claiming the government altered the contents of a dossier about Iraq - had probably been wearing a 24-hour electro-cardiogram recorder, also known as a Holter monitor, medical experts said.
But it was odd that the pads that are connected to the device had not been removed by doctors and were left attached to his chest, they said.
"If I was in a morgue and his body was presented to me I would have thought it had come out of a coronary care unit or an operating theatre," said Professor Konrad Jamrozik, of Imperial College Hospital London.
"It would be unusual for someone to be walking around wearing these pads," he told the press association.
Another heart specialist, who declined to be named, also said it was "very unusual" for someone to be found wearing the pads.
"It would suggest that at some time he had been connected to a heart monitor in a hospital or, and this is more likely, he had been connected to a 24-hour ECG recorder.
"This is a small device which would record any events in the rhythm and would be returned to a hospital to be analysed."
New details about Dr Kelly's physical condition emerged today when Lord Hutton opened his inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the scientist's death.
Lord Hutton read from an account of the postmortem examination conducted by the pathologist, Nicholas Hunt, the day after Dr Kelly died.
Dr Hunt's report revealed that Dr Kelly had been suffering from coronary artery disease, which would have hastened rather than caused his death.
The pathologist believed the main cause of Dr Kelly's death was bleeding from an incision on his left wrist, Lord Hutton said.
Dr Kelly had also taken off his watch and glasses before his death in an Oxfordshire wood two weeks ago, it was revealed.
"The removal of the watch in this way and the removal of spectacles are features pointing to this being an act of self-harm," the pathologist wrote.
(c) 2003 The Guardian
Ok nog even nalopen, hij ging dus om 3 uur wandelen is s'avond om 11 uur als vermist opgegeven en is de volgende pas om 9 uur gevonden met elektroden op z'n borst die in het ziekenhuis worden gebruikt om de EEG te meten. Zou het kunnen dat hij s'nachts werd ondervraagd door een geheime dienst en toen een hartaanval heeft gekregen?
Mysterious Chest Electrodes
By Chris Tryhorn
The Guardian - UK
8-7-3
Heart experts today said it was "unusual" for someone to wear electrode pads while walking following revelations that government scientist David Kelly had four of the special monitors on his chest when his body was found in an Oxfordshire wood.
Dr Kelly - the BBC's source for a report claiming the government altered the contents of a dossier about Iraq - had probably been wearing a 24-hour electro-cardiogram recorder, also known as a Holter monitor, medical experts said.
But it was odd that the pads that are connected to the device had not been removed by doctors and were left attached to his chest, they said.
"If I was in a morgue and his body was presented to me I would have thought it had come out of a coronary care unit or an operating theatre," said Professor Konrad Jamrozik, of Imperial College Hospital London.
"It would be unusual for someone to be walking around wearing these pads," he told the press association.
Another heart specialist, who declined to be named, also said it was "very unusual" for someone to be found wearing the pads.
"It would suggest that at some time he had been connected to a heart monitor in a hospital or, and this is more likely, he had been connected to a 24-hour ECG recorder.
"This is a small device which would record any events in the rhythm and would be returned to a hospital to be analysed."
New details about Dr Kelly's physical condition emerged today when Lord Hutton opened his inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the scientist's death.
Lord Hutton read from an account of the postmortem examination conducted by the pathologist, Nicholas Hunt, the day after Dr Kelly died.
Dr Hunt's report revealed that Dr Kelly had been suffering from coronary artery disease, which would have hastened rather than caused his death.
The pathologist believed the main cause of Dr Kelly's death was bleeding from an incision on his left wrist, Lord Hutton said.
Dr Kelly had also taken off his watch and glasses before his death in an Oxfordshire wood two weeks ago, it was revealed.
"The removal of the watch in this way and the removal of spectacles are features pointing to this being an act of self-harm," the pathologist wrote.
(c) 2003 The Guardian
Ok nog even nalopen, hij ging dus om 3 uur wandelen is s'avond om 11 uur als vermist opgegeven en is de volgende pas om 9 uur gevonden met elektroden op z'n borst die in het ziekenhuis worden gebruikt om de EEG te meten. Zou het kunnen dat hij s'nachts werd ondervraagd door een geheime dienst en toen een hartaanval heeft gekregen?