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What Is Catheter-Based Ablation? - Dr. Shukla (VIDEO)

 
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Dr. Shukla discusses catheter-based ablation.

Dr. Shukla
The catheter-based ablation has been around for approximately 20 years and very popularly around for 20 years. It was originally used for very simple SVT ablations. The cure rates got very good in a very short period of time, and they became a very safe way of actually curing arrhythmias, not masking them with medications.

The complication rate with these types of procedures are exceedingly low. They’re minimally invasive surgeries that what we do is we pass up spaghetti-like catheters through the veins of the legs generally; occasionally we use the veins under the collar bone or in the neck to pass the special catheter, but what we do is we put catheters that have the ability to record the electrical activity in the heart and generate the electrical impulses.

We place these catheters in strategic locations that we know where the normal electricity should be going to. We then subsequently place a special catheter generally referred to as the ablation or "mapping" catheter to inside the heart, and we could provoke these circuits while we’re in the procedure.

We use that special catheter to map around the heart chamber and localize it through a specific spot, and then we can deliver some sort of energy source that the most commonly used is radio frequency energy. We deliver energy through that catheter, and we’re able to actually, that translates the heat at the tip, and then actually burns a very small area in the heart with very little collateral damage.

So we’re able to actually destroy that circuit in the heart and thereby cure these arrhythmias.

About Dr. Himanshu H. Shukla, M.D.:
Dr. Himanshu H. Shukla, M.D., specializes in treating heart rhythm disorders and is founder of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (CAI) dedicated to providing heart care customized to the individual. Dr. Shukla is a member of the Heart Rhythm Society, has completed training at Columbia University in New York City, the University of Missouri and the University of Oklahoma. He is recognized for numerous published articles on the treatment of heart rhythm disorders, and by the American Heart Association for Outstanding Research. Dr. Shukla’s community works include raising awareness of heart rhythm disorders, safety and prevention measures through speeches, training and counsel; and contributing external defibrillators to local public schools and other entities.

Visit Dr. Shukla on the web at the Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (CAI) http://www.caiaz.com

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