{"id":33254,"date":"2025-11-13T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33254\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:34:17","slug":"john-fetterman-hospitalized-pennsylvania-senator-admitted-with-life-threatening-heart-problem-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33254\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman Hospitalized: Pennsylvania Senator Admitted With Life-Threatening Heart Problem | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/153149045.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Fetterman\" title=\"Senator Fetterman\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=times now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/152643139.cms.gif\" alt=\"google\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US Senator John Fetterman has been hospitalized after suffering a serious cardiac episode on Thursday morning. According to his spokesperson, Fetterman \u201csustained a fall near his home in Braddock\u201d during an early morning walk and was transported to a hospital in Pittsburgh \u201cout of an abundance of caution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doctors determined that the Pennsylvania Democrat had experienced a ventricular fibrillation (VF) flare-up, a life-threatening condition in which the heart\u2019s lower chambers beat chaotically instead of pumping blood properly, potentially leading to sudden cardiac arrest if not treated immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman became light-headed before collapsing and sustaining minor facial injuries. He later joked, \u201cIf you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His spokesperson said the senator \u201cis doing well and receiving routine observation\u201d as doctors work to fine-tune his medication regimen. Fetterman expressed gratitude to the EMTs, doctors, and nurses providing his care.<\/p>\n<p>This is breaking news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Senator John Fetterman has been hospitalized after suffering a serious cardiac episode on Thursday morning. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10924,19992,4283,28,30,29,73,18917,302],"class_list":["post-33254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-braddock","tag-fetterman","tag-john-fetterman","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-times-now","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}