Dr Vanita Arora, consultant, Interventional Cardiologist and Cardiac Arrhythmia Services in the Department of Cardiology at the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, has emerged as the first woman cardiologist to implant Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) along with Bio-ventricular pacemaker, a combo device, saving lives of many patients suffering from coronary heart disease.
With the implantation of these devices, 20 to 30 per cent of the lives could be saved, she claims.
Talking about her experiences, she said that a person suffering from coronary heartdisease could suddenly loose consciousness and his condition can deteriorate to such a level where his blood pressure and pulse could not be recorded. She said such a patient was required to be given electric shock over his heart.
She said this was caused due to ventricular fibrillation. She said the ventricular fibrillation was a very fast and the chaotic rhythm originating from lower chambers of the heart called ventriculars. She said these patients had to be treated promptly otherwise such a situation could lead to sudden death.
Describing the process of defibrillation, she says that this technique brings back the normal rhythm by applying electric shock with a machine called defibrillator.
Dr Vanita Arora treated more than 100 cases last year after being trained in the university hospital of Germany. She also learnt the management technique of complex Arrhythmias from Milwaukee, USA, where she earned her fellowship.
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