Nancy Guthrie, Police and pacemaker
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In addition to recording heart activity, pacemakers can also help document inactivity, such as confirming time of death. “After a patient has died, we interrogate the pacemaker to help determine the time of death or what may have happened. Sometimes we’re even called to the morgue to do this,” says Chu.
Nancy Guthrie’s 2 a.m. pacemaker spike on the day she vanished could mean that the elderly woman was involved in a heart rate-surging struggle with her possible captors, a lead cardiologist speculated Thursday.
Authorities are investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, 84, who was last seen at her Arizona home on Sat. Jan. 31
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