Baby Olive Heringer has been to more hospitals than most at eight months old. She was diagnosed with long QT syndrome before she was even born. “It’s very rare for somebody to be as affected as Olive is. We’re talking less than one in 10,000, less than one in a 100,000,” said Dustin Nash, MD, a pediatric electrophysiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
After she was born and big enough, she had a small pacemaker called an ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) implanted in her abdomen. Dr. Nash can monitor Olive’s heart rate from Denver.
