Every year, approximately 1.5 million surgical heart procedures require access to the left side of the heart for catheter-based treatments like atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation, left atrial appendage...
The Convergent Hybrid Ablation procedure has been gaining acceptance as an effective treatment option for long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation (AFib) since the CONVERGE trial data published in...
On the newest Inspiring Wholeness podcast, Obie Diaz, local morning radio show host, shares how a routine physical eventually led to two open heart surgeries.
AdventHealth Research Institute is currently seeking physicians experiencing exhaustion, irritability, hopelessness, anxiety, work/home imbalance or similar burnout symptoms to participate in a...
Joseph Portoghese, MD, shares the growth of GME programs at AdventHealth over the last 20 years in his leadership role.
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America released a pivotal report titled, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” in an effort to break the silence...
From a rapidly growing population in need of our services to a shrinking workforce under increased stress, health care systems across the nation face access challenges that will impact our work for...
Under the leadership of AdventHealth Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute interventional cardiologist Rohit Bhatheja, MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI, AdventHealth Orlando became the first in Central Florida to...
Each year, more people die of heart attacks than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it seems to hit the African...
Avertix’s Guardian™ System, the first and only implantable device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in patients who have had prior acute coronary syndrome (ACS) events...
Melisa Wilson, DNP, APRN, ACNP, BC, shares how Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) often goes undiagnosed because of nonspecific nature of its symptoms. She explains how to recognize...
Former AdventHealth Celebration ER Nurse & patient, Rene Galloway, 52, recently became the first recipient in the world to have a brand-new procedure called an Endoscopic Blind Limb Reduction with...
The AdventHealth Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute recently designed a new program, called the Comprehensive Atrial Fibrillation to help treat patients with long-standing Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)...