Irregular heartbeat condition Long QT explained

Doctors said his first blackout was stress related and gave him sleeping tablets. But when Noel McGrath’s heart stopped, tests proved he had the irregular heartbeat condition, Long QT, says Catherine Shanahan. 

THE scene that greeted Noel McGrath after his blackout was like a clip from a movie: his apartment was crawling with cops, paramedics and firemen.

“That’s what happens when you call emergency services in New York,” he says, half-laughing, although there was nothing funny about it at the time.