Barry J. Feldman, MD, gives an overview of the Heart & Vascular service line, discusses its structure, and explains how our general cardiologists and subspecialists deliver exceptional care to your patients.
From Interventional Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure to Structural Heart and Electrophysiology, we’re doing even more to return your patients to you in the best health.
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We are very fortunate that we have recruited some specialists in structural heart over the last year or two who have done additional training. Just focus on structural heart structural heart for those of you don't know that field. Since it is so new, it's using nonsurgical means to replace an aortic valve such as a tavern. We can place a prosthetic valve through the leg artery in the aortic valve position in place of doing open heart surgery to replace the valve. We can also do what we call mitra clips. These are clips that we place on the mitral valve leaflets to prevent regurgitation of blood across the valve when the valve is closed. It should not regard to take blood. So what we do is play a little clip to help clip it together rather than replace the valve itself. Structural specialists also work on fixing holes in hearts such as a S. D. S. Or atrial septal defects or ventricular septal defects or V. S. Ds. There were some new horizons that we are currently working on and that's looking at placing clips on the trick. A spit valve, which is another valve in the heart. So hopefully with all these newer technologies we can make the patient's recovery a lot easier. Oftentimes doing open heart surgery is not the surgery itself, but the collateral damage that takes to get to the valve to fix it so we can avoid all those by doing those through an artery that it would be much safer or vein it'll be much safer for the patient long term this also works in conjunction with electrophysiology doctors where they implant defibrillators. But many of these defibrillators now have newer devices in them as well. And we use these kind of edge devices that in the leads of the defibrillator. We can also measure the pressures and we can use we call artificial intelligence. With these algorithms we developed To determine whether patients can develop heart failure 5-7 days before they even have symptoms so we can address all these issues and prevent readmission. R. E. P. Doctors also do all types of ablation from S. VT ablation. Is that super ventricular tachycardia to ventricular abrasions. We do them from inside the heart. We also do that what we call epic are really from outside the heart. So we're very very progressed and advanced in that area and really can offer really cutting edge therapies by taking all of these new innovations in conjunction with the availability of the heart. Hospital accountable care units And providing patient accessibility on the outpatient side we've been able to reduce our readmission rate to less than 15% this year Where national averages close to 30%. Why should you refer your patient to prisma health because we care we care about our patients and we have compassion the ability provide cutting edge technology and combine that with compassion as a very powerful tool to take good care of patients. And I think that at Prisma Health we do that well. And I think that uh you can rest assured that we will take good care of your patients that you refer, or if you're a patient will take good care of you, or if you're a patient's family will take good care of your family member.
