IAN BUSHNELL 10 APRIL 2019 Hundreds of patients a year with heart problems will no longer need to travel interstate for life-saving treatment with the launch of a state-of-the-art service at Canberra Hospital. Canberrans with cardiac rhythm disorders will now be able… Read More »Riot Act: New life-saving heart procedure a coup for Canberra Hospital
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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
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