Duke of Edinburgh in hospital

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Not sounding good.

Really? Why? Poor Phil

He has chest pains so is having precautionary tests.

Just heard on news been admitted to hospital with chest pain, he is 90.

bbc and sky both saying for precautionary tests after chest pain, bbc says they don'y know if he will be kept in overnight.

there's been alot of documentaries about him on tv these past few days, perhaps viewing fergie's wedding pushed him over the edge!

hope he's ok - i do like him

Hope it is nothing serious.

Don't like that Nicholas wot hell has a black tie on. Hardly looks positive.

Oh for goodness sake witchell

Thought Nicholas Witchell looked very ill? Almost looked as old as Prince Philip.

With you there! Good old predictive text.

He's always looked ancient (NW not PP)

All the best old chap

He's a bit of an idiot. I know you're not supposed to say that though when people might be dying.
Poor queen though, she must be very worried.

I hope it's just a scare. BBC reported that there is concern, but not alarm, about his condition. And Papworth has to be one of the best places to be.

Christmas is a crap time to be ill, so best wishes to him - and to everyone else needing hospital over the next few days, their families and all the clinical and other staff who will be looking after them.

Hope prince Philip is ok and whole were on the subject, god doesnt George Michael look dreadful, he must of been really ill with pneumonia as well,

Old people have a habit of checking out, tis the circle of life. Don't know why anyone is surprised tbh. If I get to his age I'd be happy to go. God bless him.

He's had a stent, it is a very routine procedure, though they don't normally do it on 90 year olds.

Does a blocked coronary artery = a heart attack?

Not necessarily. But the stent is a preventative procedure against heart attack. He's pretty robust, by all accounts. Hope he gets better soon.

wouldn't half ruin xmas telly if he pops it today....

No blocked artery doesn't always mean a heart attack. For a heart attack the cardiac muscle needs to have been Starved of oxygen. And so with a blockage this doesn't always happen cos it may only be partial. Which by the sounds of it if has had a stent over a bypass would be the case.

Thanks. I did read a link in the Telegraph with a quote from the consultant cardiologist saying it was probably a heart attack, or something, though hopefully it was like you say just on the way to being one rather than full on stoppage.

DH commented that if he had not been a member of the royal family he would have been left on a trolley with a DNR note pinned to his chest.

Saw in the newspapers yesterday that a chef at Sandringham was also taken ill with chest pains, suspected heart attack, and was driven to the local hospital

No room in the helicopter for the staff, eh?

higgle I think your DH is both factually wrong, and out of step with experience posted by MNetters. You might like to invite him to have a look at this thread.