ACT Health – Video on Risk Prediction of Sudden Cardiac Death in Non-Ischaemic Cardiomyopathy
Day 1 Prof Rajeev Kumar Pathak from ACT Health on Vimeo.
Day 1 Prof Rajeev Kumar Pathak from ACT Health on Vimeo.
A/Prof. Rajeev Pathak had participated in the Meet the Masters Program held in Chennai, India in 2018. The program focused on live cases, mentoring and discussions on difficult case studies such as Fascicular Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation.
DANIELLA WHITE 14 DECEMBER 2017 Source: https://www.watoday.com.au/national/act/mans-teammates-bring-him-back-from-dead-then-doctors-cure-his-heart-condition-20171214-h04hm8.html When Tarran Savage – an apparently healthy 22-year-old – fell to the ground while playing indoor soccer, he was clinically dead. He could not have known he had a condition which made his… Read More »WAtoday: Man’s teammates bring him back from dead, then doctors cure his heart condition
DANIELLA WHITE 06 NOVEMBER 2017 Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/act/internationally-renowned-surgeon-brings-new-lifesaving-service-to-canberra-20171106-gzfpjs.html A new heart surgery service available for Canberra’s public patients for the first time is already saving lives. Canberra Hospital has recruited an internationally renowned cardiologist, Dr Rajeev Kumar Pathak, to start an electrophysiology service… Read More »The Age: Internationally renowned surgeon brings new life-saving service to Canberra
Long-term sustained weight loss appears to be associated with significant reduction of atrial fibrillation (AF) burden with improved maintenance of sinus rhythm in obese patients, new data presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions 2015 indicate. In addition, obese patients with… Read More »LEGACY: Weight Loss Linked to Reduced Atrial Fibrillation Burden
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150316135612.htm Obese patients with atrial fibrillation who lost at least 10 percent of their body weight were six times more likely to achieve long-term freedom from this common heart rhythm disorder compared to those who did not lose weight, according… Read More »Science Daily: Losing weight substantially reduces atrial fibrillation
Source: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/835882 Sometimes big things come in small packages. The Aggressive Risk Factor Reduction Study for Atrial Fibrillation and Implications for the Outcome of Ablation (ARREST-AF) may be a small study, but its findings provide big gains in our understanding of the link… Read More »ARREST-AF: A Turning Point in AF Care
Source: https://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/electrophysiology-arrhythmia/aggressively-managing-risk-factors-improves-outcomes-after Aggressive management of risk factors may be the key to improving patient outcomes following ablation for atrial fibrillation. Findings published Dec. 2 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggest that in patients with a high body… Read More »Cardiovascular Business: Aggressively managing risk factors improves outcomes after ablations