{"id":17969,"date":"2021-03-08T20:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/heart-hospital-performs-new-procedure\/"},"modified":"2021-03-08T20:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:48:02","slug":"heart-hospital-performs-new-procedure","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/news\/heart-hospital-performs-new-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlton Memorial Hospital \u00e9 o primeiro a realizar um novo procedimento"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-southcoast-s-charlton-memorial-now-enrolling-patients-in-a-trial-to-advance-heart-and-cardiovascular-care\"><em>O Charlton Memorial de Southcoast est\u00e1 agora a inscrever pacientes num ensaio para promover os cuidados card\u00edacos e cardiovasculares<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER, Massachusetts.<\/strong> - A Southcoast Health est\u00e1 a inscrever doentes num novo ensaio cl\u00ednico para avaliar a utiliza\u00e7\u00e3o de uma nova tecnologia de abla\u00e7\u00e3o card\u00edaca concebida para tratar a fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular, anunciaram hoje as autoridades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Centro de Cuidados Cardiovasculares do sistema de sa\u00fade comunit\u00e1rio no Charlton Memorial Hospital foi o primeiro no mundo a realizar o procedimento durante a fase crucial do ensaio de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o que precede a aprova\u00e7\u00e3o da FDA, disse a Coordenadora de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Cl\u00ednica de Southcoast, Debra Benevides.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O ensaio pivotal de isen\u00e7\u00e3o do dispositivo experimental chama-se Pulsed AF e utiliza o Sistema de Abla\u00e7\u00e3o de Campo Pulsado PulseSelect da Medtronic, uma tecnologia inovadora que utiliza campos el\u00e9ctricos pulsados para tratar a fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular, interrompendo os ritmos card\u00edacos irregulares.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-atrial-fibrillation-impacts-millions\">A fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular afecta milh\u00f5es de pessoas <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular afecta mais de 37 milh\u00f5es de pessoas em todo o mundo. \u00c9 uma das arritmias card\u00edacas mais comuns, em que as c\u00e2maras superiores do cora\u00e7\u00e3o ou \u00e1trios tremem ou batem muito depressa e de forma irregular, de modo que o cora\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o consegue bombear eficazmente o sangue para o corpo. As op\u00e7\u00f5es de tratamento para a fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular incluem procedimentos de abla\u00e7\u00e3o card\u00edaca que visam a causa dos ritmos card\u00edacos irregulares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"A fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular \u00e9 uma doen\u00e7a grave e generalizada que pode levar a um acidente vascular cerebral (AVC), que \u00e9 muitas vezes debilitante e at\u00e9 mortal\", afirma o Dr. Peter Cohn, m\u00e9dico-chefe do Southcoast Cardiovascular Care Center. \"A abla\u00e7\u00e3o AFIB pulsada \u00e9 uma tecnologia inovadora que podemos agora oferecer aos pacientes no Charlton Memorial. Este ensaio cl\u00ednico representa um grande avan\u00e7o no tratamento desta doen\u00e7a complexa, e o facto de sermos os primeiros a oferecer este procedimento confirma a nossa posi\u00e7\u00e3o como l\u00edder regional em cuidados cardiovasculares.\"&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-pulseselect-system-aims-to-prevent-atrial-fibrillation\">O sistema PulseSelect destina-se a prevenir a fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>O sistema PulseSelect fornece campos el\u00e9ctricos pulsados atrav\u00e9s de um cateter de abla\u00e7\u00e3o especificamente concebido para interromper as vias el\u00e9ctricas irregulares no cora\u00e7\u00e3o que desencadeiam a fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular. No entanto, ao contr\u00e1rio das tecnologias actuais que aquecem, como a abla\u00e7\u00e3o por radiofrequ\u00eancia, ou arrefecem, como a crioabla\u00e7\u00e3o, o tecido auricular, o sistema PulseSelect utiliza uma abordagem n\u00e3o t\u00e9rmica e visa preferencialmente o tecido card\u00edaco, com o objetivo de evitar les\u00f5es indesejadas nos tecidos circundantes, um risco das tecnologias de abla\u00e7\u00e3o actuais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Estamos sempre \u00e0 procura de formas de prestar cuidados da mais elevada qualidade poss\u00edvel aos nossos doentes\", afirmou o Dr. Ramin Davoudi, diretor m\u00e9dico de Eletrofisiologia da Southcoast Health. \"Ao participar no ensaio principal do Pulsed AF, n\u00e3o s\u00f3 estamos a proporcionar aos nossos m\u00e9dicos a oportunidade de participar na investiga\u00e7\u00e3o e utiliza\u00e7\u00e3o de tecnologia inovadora, como tamb\u00e9m esperamos um dia fazer progredir os cuidados prestados aos doentes que vivem com fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Dr. Nitesh Sood, Diretor M\u00e9dico do Programa de Bem-Estar para a Fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o Auricular da Southcoast, e o Dr. Arnoldas Giedrimas, electrofisiologista card\u00edaco, realizaram os dois primeiros procedimentos do sistema de Abla\u00e7\u00e3o de Campo Pulsado PulseSelect. Ambos os procedimentos foram bem-sucedidos, disseram os m\u00e9dicos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-on-the-leading-edge-of-life-changing-procedures\">Na vanguarda dos procedimentos que mudam a vida <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\"A Southcoast Health orgulha-se de estar na vanguarda da realiza\u00e7\u00e3o deste procedimento que muda vidas\", afirmou Sood. \"Esta \u00e9 uma equipa de eletrofisiologia de classe mundial que presta cuidados excepcionais perto de casa, para todas as comunidades do sudeste de Massachusetts e Rhode Island.\"  O Charlton Memorial tornou-se recentemente o <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoasttoday.com\/story\/news\/2020\/11\/18\/southcoasts-charlton-memorial-first-hospital-southeastern-mass-ri-implant-next-generation-watchman-f\/3767112001\/\">primeiro hospital da regi\u00e3o<\/a> para implantar o Watchman FLX, outro dispositivo que aborda a fibrilha\u00e7\u00e3o auricular e \u00e9 o \u00fanico centro em New England a participar no ensaio Champion AF da Boston Scientific. <em>Para mais informa\u00e7\u00f5es, visitar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/cardiovascular-services\/\">www.southcoast.org\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/cardiovascular-services\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4163,"template":"","categories":[1233],"class_list":["post-17969","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-achievements"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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