{"id":19307,"date":"2015-03-16T19:11:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T00:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=19307"},"modified":"2018-08-23T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:02:04","slug":"atrial-fibrillation-education-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2015\/03\/16\/atrial-fibrillation-education-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Atrial Fibrillation Education Center Launches Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since launching this website, I&#8217;ve connected with many\u00a0patients who were diagnosed with both heart valve disease and atrial fibrillation (AFib), which is an abnormal heart rhythm. \u00a0According to reports,\u00a0about 30% of patients with valvular disorders\u00a0also have AFib. So, it&#8217;s pretty common.<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230; I recently learned that about 70% of patients diagnosed with valve disease and atrial fibrillation\u00a0DO NOT get atrial fibrillation\u00a0treatment during their valve repair or valve replacement procedures. Yikes!!!<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons, I just built\u00a0a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation\/\">Atrial Fibrillation Education Center<\/a> to help patients get educated and empowered specific to heart valve disease and AFib. Here&#8217;s a quick, instructional video about the new AFib Education Center. (A written transcript of this video is provided below for the hearing impaired members of our community.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pnAoa1QUorA\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Experience\u00a0the AFib Education Center<\/h2>\n<p>Now that you watched the video and learned about the Afib Educational Center, here&#8217;s your chance to experience it. As discussed in the video, there are two components of the platform &#8212; the AFib Education Center and a new\u00a0directory of AFib and valve specialists.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation\/\">AFib Education\u00a0Center<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Atrial-Fibrillation-Heart-Valve-Educational-Center.jpg\" alt=\"Learning Center: Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Valve Disease\" width=\"550\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a>\u00a0The Atrial Fibrillation &amp; Heart Valve Disease Learning Center<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>New\u00a0AFib &amp; Heart Valve Specialist Directory<\/h2>\n<p>If you have been diagnosed with both AFib\u00a0and heart valve disease, we just started a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation\/surgeons-hospitals-directory.php\">directory of cardiac centers and surgeons<\/a> who specialize in this treatment which is\u00a0referred to as a <em>concomitant<\/em> heart valve and atrial fibrillation surgery.<\/p>\n<p>So you know, AFib can be surgically\u00a0treated, during your valve operation, using a safe and effective technique known as the\u00a0Maze Procedure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation\/surgeons-hospitals-directory.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Afib-Cardiac-Center-Surgeon-Directory.jpg\" alt=\"Directory of Atrial Fibrillation &amp; Heart Valve Surgeons\" width=\"550\" height=\"639\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The New Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Valve Specialist Directory<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhile there is more content to\u00a0be included in the Atrial Fibrillation Education Center, I felt there was enough information to start educating and empowering patients, their families and friends.<\/p>\n<p>As we roll-out this new platform, I would like to extend a special thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Marc-Gerdisch-Indianapolis-Indiana.php\">Dr. Marc Gerdisch<\/a>, Dr. Jonathan Philpott, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Patrick-McCarthy-Chicago-Illinois.php\">Dr. Patrick McCarthy<\/a>, Benjamin Hill, Barbara Garren, Jane Kruse, Brian York, Vanessa Vitsas, Nicole Reitz and Gideon Sims for their extraordinary feedback and contributions to this project. Without their support, this new platform would not exist. Thank you!!!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Here&#8217;s a written transcript of my video above:<\/p>\n<p>Hi, everybody! It\u2019s Adam with HeartValveSurgery.com. Today, I am very excited to announce the launch of a new educational platform for patients diagnosed with both valve disease and atrial fibrillation, or Afib, which is an abnormal or chaotic rhythm of the human heart.<\/p>\n<p>Why are we doing this? There\u2019s two main reasons. The first reason is that over the years, we\u2019ve learned that up to 30% of patients in our community diagnosed with valvular disease also have Afib, so we want to educate you. The second reason is that there\u2019s some scary statistics in research which suggest that up to 70% of patients diagnosed with both valve disease and AFib do not get proper treatment for AFib during a valve repair or valve replacement operation.<\/p>\n<p>With this new platform, we want to empower you specific to what\u2019s known as a concomitant valve and AFib therapy in which both disorders get treated at one time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s take a look at this new educational platform. So here we are at the website, and let\u2019s talk about the ways that you can access the atrial fibrillation educational platform. There\u2019s really two ways. My favorite is you can just go and you can search for it. If you type in atrial fibrillation and hit Enter or the Search key, you\u2019ll see there are 236 results for educational information on our website, but what you want to do is you want to click the top result and that\u2019s going to go ahead and take you to our AFib educational platform.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t want to search, there\u2019s another way you can do it. Let\u2019s go back to the Home and let\u2019s go over to our Learning Center. Here you can get a whole lot of great information, but if you were to go to Symptoms and Disorders and click Atrial Fibrillation, that too, it would take you right to our new AFib platform.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s look at what\u2019s available to you here. What we\u2019ve seen is that patients really like to learn through videos, and so we\u2019ve been very fortunate to put together a lot of great content for you all about AFib, valve disease, and the Maze procedure which is used to treat AFib surgically with videos. If you were to click Watch Video, what will happen is you\u2019re going to see a really great video with Dr. Jonathan Philpott, which we recently filmed at Sentara Heart Hospital all about the question of what is atrial fibrillation. If you really want to get up to speed in terms of what AFib is, this is the way to do it. Dr. Philpott is incredible at explaining what AFib is, what the symptoms are, what the risks are, and how AFib and valve disease can be treated at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing that we know is that patients like to learn about how procedures are done. If you want to, you can watch a video that\u2019s here. It\u2019s by Cleveland Clinic, and it talks all about the Maze procedure, which is the procedure that\u2019s used to surgically correct AFib.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing, one of my favorites, is we recently traveled to Indianapolis, and we got a chance to meet Linda Staples. This story is really unlike most others. I\u2019m not going to take away from what Linda has to share, but I really encourage you to take the time to learn all about Linda\u2019s story with both valve disease and AFib. It\u2019s really touching, and it\u2019s very, very inspirational.<\/p>\n<p>As you scroll down the page, you\u2019re just going to see a lot more information. I\u2019m not going to go into all of this for you, but you can go ahead and take the time and learn all about AFib and stroke. You can learn more about what the Maze procedure is and how it can help you. There\u2019s a special interview here with Dr. Cox. You can read about the FDA approval for surgical AFib treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Then what we did is we were able to find some patients in our community who have had successful valve and AFib therapy. Feel free to go ahead and click on Clarissa, and you can see a video all about Clarissa, or you can go ahead and you can click on Michael\u2019s picture, and you will see information all about his experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have this information, one thing you might have noticed is there\u2019s this little thing over here called AFib Specialist. This is your opportunity to go ahead and just learn about some of the cardiac centers and clinicians as we launch this platform that we are aware of that do have specialties specific to AFib and valvular disease treatment. Let\u2019s say you are near or around New York and you wanted to get some information about specialists there, there\u2019s Dr. David Adams. Let\u2019s say you are out in Washington, you can learn all about Dr. Glenn Barnhart at Swedish Heart Hospital in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>There is a little tour of the educational platform, and I hope you take the time to go ahead and really get educated about AFib and valve disease so that if you do have these two disorders, you can get the best possible treatment.<\/p>\n<p>That is our new AFib and Heart Valve Disease platform. Thanks so much for listening and here is the link if you\u2019d like to go ahead and start learning, alright? Thanks so much, and as we always say here, \u201cKeep on ticking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atrial-fibrillation-afib"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}