Moore Regional Offers Advanced Pacemaker to Congestive Heart failure Patients PINEHLRST- "!' ve had a weak heart for about 10 years now," says red Springs resident Bets> Overstreet. "M> heart has functioned on 30 percent of its potential for years. but I'd never had a heart attack until that particular morning when I woke up and I couldn't breathe." After suffering her first heart attack at age 81. Overstreet became the second patient at KirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital to receive an advanced biventricular pacemaker implanted by Ker Boyce. M.D.. of Pinehurst Medical Clinic. Dr. Boyce started Moore Regional's Klectrophysiology program in 1999. The biventricular pacemaker is a cardiac resynchroni/ation therapy device specifically designed to enhance the heart's ability to beat in patients suffering from mild to moderate congestive heart failure. The advanced device received PDA approval on Aug. 29. 2001. Moore Regional Hospital performed its first biventricular pacemaker procedure on October 9; its second on October 10th with Overstreet: and its third on October llth. An estimated 15 to 20 percent of congestive heart failure patients- or 650.000 people each year- qualify for biventricular pacemakers. "Patients with this device are going to find that they have more energy now that their heart-pumping action is more normal." says Victor Chacon, a member of Moore Regional's Heart Care Team. "They're also going to find that they feel a lot better and that their quality of life has improved." The day after the procedure Overstreet says the morning after she received her biventricular pacemaker she was up at 6 o'clock and ready to roll. "It's been a wonderful experience." she says, "and I'm just real glad to be a part of this pioneer program." By mid-afternoon, she had given herself a sponge bath, walked the halls several times and visited with friends and family. "I'm 81 years old." Overstreet says, "and a lot of people wouldn't dare try anything like tis, but there's nothing to fear. I don't have any shortness of breath or any thing like that. In fact, the folks here at the hospital told me in a month I'd be looking for a husband. One even said that I'd be running the marathon." While she doesn't expect anything like that, she does expect to continue living by herself and looking after herself. "I'd like to see this happen to a lot of other people who have heart problems." she says. "I can't say enough good things about my experience here." Pacemakers and the heart "Congestive heart failure causes the heat not to pump effectively. which affects blood supply to the body." savs Chacon. "One of the big things in some patients with congestive heart failure is that the heart's ventricles do not beat in synchrony One of the hear's four chambers is barely working. The new biventricular pacemaker resynchronizes the heart's ventricles at the proper timing to increase blood output to the body. The whole lower heart beats at the same time as it would normally." The heart has four separate chambers- the upper right atrium, the upper left atrium, the lower right ventricle and the lower left ventricle. Pacemakers enhance the heart's ability to beat by electrically stimulating the heart with a silver-dollar-sized, battery-powered generator pack that is implanted just beneath the skin below the collarbone. The generator is connected to the heart though tiny leads (wires) that are run through the veins. Leads detect electrical activity in the heart and transmit that information to the generator, which in turn sends precisely timed electrical signals through the leads to the heart. "The biventricular pacemaker has Leads that go into the right atrium, the right ventricle and the left ventricle." says Chacon. "No other device has ever done that until now." Traditional demand pacemakers, which are commonly used to treat slower heartbeats (bradyarrhythmia or bradycardia), operate on two leads that connect the generator to only the right side of the heart. Connecting both ventricles with three leads enables all four chambers of the heart to beat simultaneously and more efficiently, which "actually paces the heart into synchronicity and increases the blood output, which could increase the amount of energy patients have to improve their overall quality of life." says Cachon. Imagine the kind of education that takes you to exciting new places, trains you in hundreds of the world's most sophisticated technologies, and pays you to learn! That's what education looks like in the Air Force Reserve. 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"I enjoy being a family care physician, because I get to treat a variety of health issues. Rural medicine is especially interesting because of the complexity of patients." Downtime catches the sports enthusiast playing a little one-on-one basketball with her husband or enjoying family activities such as camping and biking. 923 West Third StTCct Pembroke, NC 28372 (910) 521-6029 www.firsthealth.org FirstHealth F A M1LY c: A K E C K'N TER PEMBROKE . Nl.flfrt