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Hyderabad, Nov. 2 Care Hospitals, the city-based hospital group that specialises in cardiology, is in talks with a healthcare institute in Milan (Italy) to adopt its technique that ensures quicker reach-out time to attend to patients.

Dr Narsimhan, a senior cardiologist, said the technique would be very useful in attending to patients suffering from ventricular arrhythmia — a condition where patients are hit by consecutive impulses that arise from the ventricles at a heart rate of 100 beats or more a minute.

his emergency medical condition could only be stopped by timely drug intake or electrical shocks.

“This could be fatal as it might lead to disorganised electrical activity, resulting in the failure of blood-pumping activity in the heart,” Dr Narsimhan said.

Addressing a press conference on Friday to provide a brief of his presentation, at the international symposium in the University of Miami (the US) last week, he said at least 5 per cent of the people who underwent heart surgeries could be a target.

“Studies by a team of doctors at Care found that non-scar (fresh incidence of heart problems) cases too are on the rise,” he said.

The team, which included Dr B.K.S. Sastry, has begun a module to train more cardiologists in this procedure.

Presenting a patient who was implanted with a device that is slightly bigger than a match box, he said the device could detect the irregularity in the heart beat and give electric shocks to correct the problem.

The product, however, is priced at Rs 5 lakh, making it unaffordable for most patients at present.

The hospital has sought a licence from Department of Telecommunications to get bandwidth that enables it to get remote access to the data collected by the device (implanted internally and above the ribs).

“This will help doctors attend to patients living in far-off places,” he said.

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