Heart Rhythm Abnormalities
by Sarah Hardy | Oct 21, 2025 | David Begley, Heart palpitations
Most people enjoy a cup of coffee to start the day or a glass of wine to unwind. These are common parts of modern life. However, if you have ever felt your heart flutter, skip a beat, or race after drinking coffee or alcohol, you’ve experienced the direct link between...
by Sarah Hardy | Oct 11, 2025 | Arrhythmia, Dr David Begley, Heart Health
You feel your heart skip, flutter, or suddenly pound out of your chest. Palpitations are alarming. Even more frightening is a sudden blackout or syncope (fainting) that seems to come out of nowhere. These symptoms are not just nuisances, and they can be your heart...
by Sarah Hardy | Sep 25, 2025 | Consultant Cardiologist, Heart Health, Heart palpitations, Palpitations, Palpitations consultant Cambridge
Many people have experienced the uncomfortable sensation of a racing or fluttering heart. These feelings, known as heart palpitations, are often brief and harmless, but they can sometimes signal an underlying issue with the heart’s rhythm. While a heart flutter...
by Sarah Hardy | Aug 30, 2025 | Pacemakers, Pacemakers - What you need to know
TheseA pacemaker is a small, life-saving device that helps regulate a person’s heartbeat. Despite being a common and effective treatment for certain heart conditions, misconceptions about living with one still exist. Understanding the reality of these cardiac...
by Sarah Hardy | Jun 10, 2025 | Heart Disease, Heart Health
When you consider your heart health, your blood pressure reading often comes to mind first. While vital, this provides only one piece of a much larger puzzle. Truly understanding your risk for heart disease means looking much deeper at a range of factors that...
by Sarah Hardy | Dec 10, 2024 | Arrhythmia consultant Cambridge, Blog, David Begley, Diagnostic Electrophysiology Study, ECG
Heart health is vital, and sometimes its rhythms can go astray. That’s where cardiac electrophysiology could be the answer. This specialised area of medicine focuses on diagnosing and treating electrical issues in the heart. If you’ve been referred to a cardiac...
by Sarah Hardy | Mar 12, 2024 | Blog, David Begley, Pacemakers, Pacemakers - What you need to know
Pacemakers are life-saving devices that have revolutionised the treatment of heart rhythm disorders. Here we’re exploring pacemaker surgery and how Dr David Begley can provide the pacemaker surgery Cambridge patients need. What is a Pacemaker? A pacemaker is a small...
by Sarah Hardy | Feb 22, 2023 | Arrhythmia, Blog, Dr David Begley
There is nothing to suggest that every patient experiences symptoms similarly when they have a heart rhythm abnormality. However, there are some common and shared symptoms that many patients experience and can be an indication that you should get further...
by Sarah Hardy | Feb 15, 2023 | Arrhythmia, Blog, Consultant Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Dr David Begley
Anyone who experiences heart palpitations knows how worrying they can be. Even if you only experience them once, it is not something you will forget easily. Palpitations are essentially an abnormality of the heartbeat. They are characterised by hard, fast and...
by Sarah Hardy | Nov 10, 2022 | Arrhythmia, Blog, Cardiologist Cambridgeshire, Dr David Begley
Patients who faint without any reason may be concerned about their heart health. Fainting can be a scary experience, even more so when you do not know why it happened. If you pass out a number of times with no explanation, you should seek medical help. You may find...
by Sarah Hardy | Oct 25, 2022 | Arrhythmia, Arrhythmia consultant Cambridge, Dr David Begley
There are many symptoms you may associate with heart problems. Palpitations, feeling dizzy, fainting or being short of breath are sometimes symptoms of heart rhythm abnormalities. Understanding the causes, possible diagnoses and treatment can help managing the...
by Anna | Nov 13, 2021 | Cardiac Rhythm Management, ECG, General, Heart palpitations
Dr Begley is a Cardiologist located in Cambridge who specialises in cardiac rhythm management. This is the investigation of and treatment for heart rhythm problems or arrhythmias. A thorough assessment is needed to establish the cause of your symptoms and prepare...
