Reversal of common medical practice for ablations? July 20, 2019 04:00PM |
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So we are supposed to have one view on this broad which is "ablations are great when done by Natalie and some others". Even Dr. Natalie has to do more than one ablation for a patient. On this board some have had 3 done by him. There are some tragic stories about some ablations outcomes, which we usually don't read about them on here. I recall a few years ago a doctor had an ablation at U of M hospital in Ann Arbor by the top guy there and unfortunately he died.
I just would like to hear about other things that some do for their AF that doesn't always include ablations without it being squashed by Carey.
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I’m curious about this caution. If someone is looking for an excellent EP in a certain geographical region, it would seem that the best way to help them would be to post the names of EPs whom members have knowledge of or experience with. That way everyone reading the forum can benefit and members can search the forum for an EP’s name to read about others’ experiences with him or her. What is the reason for caution in sharing an EP’s name?Quote
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Here in EU, we're usually very cautious about names we write in our posts. Common use is to only give our Dr's name in private messages
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sigh... Mandrola.... As far as I can tell, he's an EP who thinks the only treatment for afib that has any value is lifelong amiodarone.
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My take on him is that he is evolving to a more data-driven approach and is less enamored with the latest innovations in pharmaceuticals and procedures which don't meet a certain rigorous standard. It appears he actually reads and understands studies and attempts to explain them to laymen, which is a valuable thing. He is definitely an outlier in broaching the idea of sham studies of ablation, but he has a point if not a solution. He is without doubt much better informed than these cardiologists turned nutritional epidemiologists like Gundry who has no footprint in peer-reviewed literature and obvious commercial interests.