Anthony Van Loo, a Belgian soccer player with a heart abnormality collapses during a match. Within several seconds, he is revived spontaneously--without a hand touching him! How? He has an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) which shocked him out of a fatal heart rhythm and literally brought him back to life!
Hundreds of thousands of people in this country die of this or a similar condition yearly--almost 1000 deaths per day! ICDs are 98% effective in converting the fatal heart rhythms that cause cardiac arrest back to a normal rhythm. Find out if you are at risk by having a simple non-invasive heart test, an echocardiogram, which may reveal a ticking time bomb! You too may benefit from a defibrillator.
Here at Cardiology Associates, we are proud to be the only cardiology practice in Western Ventura county to offer our patients the full spectrum of heart care, from the diagnostic echocardiogram to the
defibrillator implantation (if necessary). Our Electrophysiologist, Dr. Ishu Rao, guides the programming and management of these complex devices.
