Rhythm disturbances of the heart can cause annoyance and even be life threatening to patients. Perfect Heart’s electro-physiologists provide patients with many solutions. Be it ablation therapy, pacemaker or defibrillator implantation, the result is outstanding quality patient care.

Holter Monitoring
       Holter monitoring, also called ambulatory electrocardiography makes a graphic record of the electric currents generated by the heart. This test can be done while the patient walking or moving around wearing a small recorder called the Holter Monitor. The main goal of Holter monitoring is to document and describe occurrences of abnormal electric behavior of the heart. These can be random, spontaneous, sleep-related, emotion or stress-induced. These events are often rare but can sometimes be life threatening. In order to correlate the heart’s rhythm disturbance with a patient’s symptoms, a continuous recording can be made for up to 24 to 48 hours.


Ablation Therapy
      Ablation, also known as radio-frequency ablation is a procedure aimed at burning out damaged heart tissue in order to slow down racing hearts.

       It is a relatively common and effective procedure in which several small wires are introduced into a vein and guided to the heart using an x-ray camera. The abnormal tissue can then be identified and easily cauterized leaving behind a miniscule scar. Procedures such as these can truly cure most types of abnormal heart rhythms. Abnormal heart rhythms which may benefit from this therapy include atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation, superventricular tachycardia and ventricular arrhythmias.


Pacemaker
 
       Perfect Heart electro-physiologists provide comprehensive pacemaker services. Every device is chosen with specific features needed by each patient. The leads (wires which connect the pacemaker to the heart) used, are some of the most advanced available today. Perfect Heart provides a complete pacemaker clinic in order to make changes required in each individual patient’s pacemaker so that the programming is appropriately adjusted to each patient.


Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
       Implantable defibrillators (ICD) are devices the size of beepers, implanted in the chests of patients with heart diseases who are at risk of cardiac arrest due to ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation – two potentially fatal heart rhythms.