The Santa Maria local health unit in Lisbon became the first SNS hospital to use an innovative technique for the non-invasive treatment of complex arrhythmias. This procedure was performed on Friday and has the advantage of speed of intervention, which is non-invasive and performed on an outpatient basis, with same-day discharge.
“This treatment consists of localized use of a high-dose radiation beam and takes 10 minutes with no immediate complications, with the patient leaving the hospital on foot after several hours, while traditional ventricular tachycardia ablation takes 4 to 6 hours, involves general anesthesia, multiple vascular accesses and a stay in the intensive care unit for two to three days after the operation,” explains Nuno Cortés-Díaz, Deputy Coordinator of Electrophysiology of the Arrhythmology Department of the ULSSM.
Author: Edgar Nascimento
Source: CM Jornal
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