In this video, Dr. Sandipta Ray, Consultant - Cardiology, talks about the advanced management of heart failure. He also discusses ...

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Advanced Treatment for Heart Failure | Manipal Hospital Broadway

namaskar Dr shipai Interventional cardiologist from the Flor of monal Hospital Broadway Department of Cardiology today we will discuss uh some advanced management of heart failure heart failure is a common problem in uh developing country like India many patient they come to us in a symptoms of heart failure the common symptoms of heart failure are like chest pain effort intol shortness of breath and sometime they present with palpitation unexplained rapid heartbeat we have uh very good medications now for management of heart failure like AC inhibitor beta blocker diuretics but today we will discuss about some special device that is helped uh to recover from heart failure the special device is nothing but a special type of pacemaker that is known as CRT cardiac resynchronization therapy as uh compared to Convention pacemaker in CRT it is generally a b ventricular pacing system where we actually Pace right atrium right ventricle and left ventricle so actually three leads are placed within the heart and these leads are secured and these three leads are connected with a pulse generator that is actually placed over your anterior chest W this is a relatively safe procedure the usual usually it uh take around the procedure take around 2 to 2 .5 hour uh to complete uh with a very good or near normal recovery and patient they those patient who actually develop the symptoms of heart failure actually do far more better along with CRT plus drug therapy as compared to drug therapy alone so in those patient who have H having a heart failure with a ejection fraction of less than 35% with a prerequisite ECG criteria should have a CRT implantation despite having symptoms of heart failure on guideline directed medical therapy CRT is uh a novel device that has been revolutionized the management of heart failure in the current ERA and patient should take advantage of this device

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