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How high is too high for a pulse rate?
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By flut­terb­y108 Last reply at January 27, 2011 at 6:09 Replies 2 Likes 5

My Dad has A-fib and he has just this year been diagnosed with Polymyocitis (a muscle disease that affects the heart since the heart is a muscle) and Lupus. Last night his pulse rate was in the 140's, and he was in bed. Should he have gone to the ER?

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