At UCI Health, we are pioneering new techniques and technologies to enhance the effectiveness and safety of this critical procedure. Our electrophysiologists are at the forefront of research and innovation, continually improving methods to treat arrhythmias and other heart conditions. By leveraging cutting-edge technology and their extensive expertise, they provide patients with the highest standard of care, ensuring better outcomes and improved quality of life.
We're very excited here at UCI Health to offer the latest in technology. This includes advancements in catheter ablation. We're very excited to be offering our patients pulse field ablation, which ultimately I think will revolutionize the way in which we treat both atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. I specialize in the management of atrial arrhythmias, ventricular arrhythmias, so these are fast and slow heartbeats and techniques to prevent stroke. So my area of expertise include management of atrial arrhythmias and also ventricular arrhythmias. This includes management strategies to prevent stroke and invasive strategies, largely speaking catheter ablation and device therapy. We also include management of stroke prevention strategies which include the left atrial occlusion device. So the type of patient who. Really benefit the most from stroke prevention strategies including the left atrial occlusion device include patients who have identified risk factors for having stroke, have been offered blood thinners but either high risk for bleeding complications or have actually had a bleeding complication. So this can include patients with chronically low platelets, patients who have actually had established bleeding complications whether it's in the gastrointestinal tract into the urinary system. Patients who are high risk for falls and could sustain trauma which would further increase their risk of an adverse outcome if they were taking a blood thinner, or for people who have very active lifestyle, which we commonly see here in Southern California and don't want to be on long term oral anticoagulants.
