“Our goal is to get inside the sack, but not touch the heart. And getting to the surface of the heart can be risky, because it can, sometimes there’s a 5% risk of puncturing the heart itself,” Sharma said. And sometimes you have to go on the surface of the heart. “In electrophysiology, we do perform ablation to take care of abnormal tissues, abnormal circuits in the heart. It involved using carbon dioxide to inflate the area, creating a larger work space temporarily. Using radio frequency to destroy a small amount of tissue responsible for irregular rhythm is a tried and true technique, which is why NCH Electrophysiologist Dinesh Sharma opted for a new approach to reach a delicate area in the lower heart chamber. It makes the operation safer for those who already have a distressed heart.
Doctors at NCH’s Rooney Heart Institute are now using a cutting-edge method to operate on patients.
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