Cardiac Arrhythmias
The Heart Center has a large multidisciplinary team to manage patients with intractable or medically unresponsive atrial or cardiac arrhythmias. With up-to-date procedures and equipment, we specialize in the management of cardiac arrhythmias and arrhythmia-related problems.
What are Cardiac Arrhythmias?
Cardiac arrhythmias are abnormalities in the "electrical" conducting systems that regulate cardiac rate and rhythm. Arrhythmias can indicate other serious cardiac health issue including tachycardias, bradycardias, syncope, cardiac arrest, and disorders associated with high risk of sudden death.
The Heart Center is one of 15 centers in the country testing a new dual-chamber defibrillator for patients with both atrial and ventricular cardiac arrhythmias. The conventional treatment, a ventricular defibrillator used with medication, is only effective in half of patients. The dual-chamber defibrillator translates information from the atrium to discriminate the type of rhythm problem being treated.
Learn more about Cardiac Arrhythmias at the Heart Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has been performing cardiac surgery since the 1940s and helped pioneer open-heart surgery in North Carolina. Through the years, Medical Center cardiologists and heart surgeons have made major contributions in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.