An Atrial Fibrillation Ablation was performed for the very first time at our Braselton location by Electrophysiologist, Dr. Stephen Prater. At Georgia Heart Institute, we're proud to be able to serve our patients in all areas of our community.
We're gonna do an atrial fibrillation ablation on a gentleman who's got atrial fibrillation that's becoming way more frequent. He's having weekly episodes Now, medicines aren't working well, ablation is just, you know, it's cauterizing the tissue and their little areas of the heart that are very important for the either the initiation or the perpetuation of atrial fibrillation, the abnormal heart rhythm. So if we can remove those areas from his heart, hopefully he won't have anymore atrial fibrillation. Um it's the only thing we have the cure a fib success rates about 80% that we can fix this for him. It's not 100 but 15 years ago, it was zero, essentially, 20 years ago when I was a fellow, we didn't have a cure for a fit. So it's a great thing to offer these patients that drugs aren't working. What do we do? This is this is our best option. First time in breslin. Yeah, this is the most common procedure in the world, because atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in the world, as far as ablation goes, so. Um but yes, that's the first time. We're gonna do this in brazelton teams in place, We expect a good day
