Podcasts by Cardiologist FAQ
Listen to an explanation of common cardiovascular terms and medical procedures as well as health care advice from the heart experts at Osceola Regional Medical Center.
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Ablation: Solving Heart Rhythm Problems from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.899454
What ablation is practically it can mean two things, exactly you burn the electrical circuit or you freeze the electrical circuit. I give my patients examples of soldering it's like when you solder...
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Heart Valve Damage: Aortic Stenosis from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.898462
The is called aortic stenosis and because the aortic valve doesn't open properly the left ventricle the main chamber of the heart has to work harder to squeeze blood thru a smaller and smaller orif...
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Nuclear Cardiology Diagnostic Testing from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.897456
Osceola does have a very busy nuclear program where we stress tests including stress tests for people who can't walk. And we use a substance that has a small amount of radioactive activity in it to...
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ICD: A Type of Pacemaker from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.896257
ICD is a fancy kind of a pacemaker in other words it delegates a shock at a various set energy and if your heart what it does is an insurance policy really. The placement of an ICD is just similar ...
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What Do Pacemakers Do? from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.895230
We all have natural pacemakers in our heart; the function of the natural pacemaker is to provide electrical impulses that are generated at different levels in the heart to keep the heart pumping fr...
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Recovery After Open Heart Surgery from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.894202
Most patients after an open heart surgery are in the ICU for one day, most patients are back up to the floor for 2-3 days most patients after standard open heart surgery are home by post op day 3 o...
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Side Effects of Heart Drugs from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.893201
It used to be and I have been doing this for 30 years and it used to be that patients didn't take their medications because of side effects. I remember there were only 3 blood pressure medicines av...
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Arrhythmia: Unusual Heart Rate from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.891964
A well-toned athlete can have a heart rate in his 50s and 60s and he is exercising, because of you---when you run when you exercise your heartbeat goes up to 120-150 because of---ataxia. / But if y...
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Time is Important During a Heart Attack from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.890952
For us in cardiology time is muscle so the time we lose by not diagnosing something is time that patient loses and its cells that die and that heart gets weakened by that loss of time and loss of c...
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Hormone Replacement Therapy and Heart Disease from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.889878
There are studies that have shown that estrogen replacement in women may actually increase the risk of heart disease and that is no longer recommended. It used to be that woman may take estrogen re...
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Smoking and Lung Cancer from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.889066
Lung Cancer in the United States kills more people than breast cancer, colon cancer and pancreatic cancer combined. It has a very poor survival characteristic and fortunately is linked to smoking i...
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Anxiety and Heart Disease from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.888039
I have seen woman confusing anxiety with heart attack or angina but I have seen also with is pretty typical woman confusing acid reflux with heart disease and in fact they may be having a very sign...
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Heart Disease is Common in Women from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.887339
Most people don't realize how significant heart disease is among women. Most women fear cancer or breast cancer or other diagnosis like the number one cause of death. But heart disease is much more...
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TEE: Trans-esophageal Echocardiogram Procedure from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.886574
TEE (trans-esophageal echocardiogram) what we prefer to in the hospital as TEE is a process whereby we make a patient swallow a probe and the probe takes breathtaking pictures of the heart from the...
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Trans-esophageal Echocardiogram Imaging Test from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.885913
TEE (trans-esophageal echocardiogram) is very valuable when it comes to looking for clots in the heart, looking at the valves of the heart to make sure that they are not infected and don't have a c...
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Chest Pains versus Stomach Pains: Understanding the Difference from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.885055
It is very important to know the difference between the signs and symptoms of a heart attack, chest pains and abdominal pains to make sure we are not either missing the symptoms for a gallbladder a...
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Risk Factors for Increased Plaque from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.884357
Plaque that produces coronary artery disease, arises in the vessel in the artery, but it's related to certain risk factors. Factors like high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking.
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Regulating High Blood Pressure from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.883513
The most important thing for blood pressure control especially if you do not want to take any medication is why you have high blood pressure. Is it because you are overweight, lack of exercise, eat...
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What is Coronary Artery Disease from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.882838
CAD stands for Coronary Artery Disease and it's a process whereby the arteries that supply the heart get diseased. The commonest cause of CAD is a process called atherosclerosis which is a disposi...
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What Your Cholesterol Results Mean from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.882053
Let's breakdown what exactly cholesterol results mean, when you have your blood work drawn, you always want to make your blood fasting at a minimum of 12 hours. With those lab results you will have...
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Advisable Lifestyle Changes after a Heart Attack from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.881349
Lifestyle changes after a heart attack are vital. Adequately changing lifestyle can definitely prevent a second heart attack. The only factor that puts a person at risk for a heart attack is our fa...
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What is a Heart Attack from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.880307
A heart attack is in some ways a complex situation in terms of the entire body. But the cause is very simple. The cause of a heart attack is a clot forming in a narrowing in one of the arteries to ...
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My Story: Radial Access STEMI, Life Changing STEMI from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.879534
Robert Schiller is the first patient to receive Radial STEMI at CFCVI. He shares his expereince.
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The First Radial STEMI Procedure Performed at our Hospital from 2021-04-07T05:12:58.878635
Time is short when a patient is having a heart attack. Accessing the heart through the femoral artery in one's leg is not always the best option. Our hospital can utilize the radial artery in the w...
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