 On Tuesday, February 13th, the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce hosted a lunch and learn with special guest Dr. Chase Reynolds from Pikeville Medical Center. Dr. Reynolds is a cardiac electrophysiologist and medical director of the Hart and Vascular Institute who visited the chamber to speak about current developments at BMC. Mountaintop News spoke with Reynolds to learn more. Well, February is hard month, so we were wanting to discuss heart health and cardiac care here in Eastern Kentucky and the offerings we have at Pikeville Medical Center. We've really worked hard to establish a world-class heart and vascular institute with the idea in mind being that where you live shouldn't determine if you live so that all the cardiac care, all your cardiovascular needs can be met right here at home. And we just went through kind of division to division through the heart and vascular institute talking about what we were offering in general cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, and vascular surgery. Norton Eye Center in Pikeville, your local vision experts, experienced doctors using state-of-the-art technology, choose from top designer frames from Oakley, Ray Ban, Nike, and more. We accept Medicaid and Medicare, plus most insurances are accepted. Norton Eye Center in Pikeville, next to Tractor Supply. One topic of discussion was a new type of technology being implemented at BMC that can better treat atrial fibrillation. Pikeville Medical Center is one of eight hospitals in the nation to use it. Yeah, we have some exciting new things coming kind of down the road, but the most exciting one at the moment is what's called pulse-filled ablation. Pulse-filled ablation is a new technology for the management of atrial fibrillation. Pikeville Medical Center is glad to be one of the first eight centers in the country to have that technology available to us. We'll actually be performing the fourth procedure in the country tomorrow. One of my partners, Dr. Joe Souza, will be performing that here at Pikeville Medical Center. We're all really excited about what this means for both for our patients, as well as for just the improvement of heart health in the area and our offerings to manage atrial fibrillation. Reporting from Outantop News, I'm Nick Collum.