Live Webcast: Cardiac Resynch Therapy for Heart Failure

Tufts-New England Medical Center and OR Live will conduct a live Webcast of a bi-ventricular defibrillator implant on Wednesday, March 7, at 6 p.m. EST. (23:00 UTC)
The surgical procedure will be performed by cardiac electrophysiologist Jonathan Weinstock, MD, and moderated by N.A. Mark Estes, MD, Director of the New England Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Tufts-NEMC and Director of the Medical Center's Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacemaker Laboratory. The Webcast will feature live Internet transmission of the procedure, as well as interviews with Marvin Konstam, MD, Chief of Tufts-NEMC's Division of Cardiology. Drs. Konstam and Estes will also discuss the integrated services of Tufts-NEMC's Cardiology Division and the benefits of comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment for heart failure. The discussion will include highlights of the broad range therapeutic options at Tufts-NEMC available to patients with heart failure.

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• bi-v
• ICD
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• disease
• cardiology
• electrophysiologist
• medical
• surgery

[bigblackjr7]

I just got a ICD put in at Lahey because they said that was my only option and that I could now longer do anything really athletic for the rest of my life just work and now I see this I wonder if it to late for me now that I have the ICD

[lovebug38]

I have congestive heart failure , had since birth. 3 holes in heart and plumanary heart valve replacement 2 xs would love to know more about this.