Florida Hospital Best in Care - February 2009 - (Page 11)

ABLATION THERAPY ROBOTIC ABLATION CRYOABLATION RADIO FREQUENCY ABLATION PATIENT BENEFITS PATIENT BENEFITS Personalizing Pacing: PATIENT BENEFITS ELECTRICAL THERAPY PACEMAKERS ECHO RESYNCHRONIZATION IMPLANTED CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATORS ICDs PATIENT BENEFITS PATIENT BENEFITS PATIENT BENEFITS Florida Hospital cardiovascular sonographer Rick Moro, RDCS, RVT, is “personalizing” heart care for those with heart arrhythmias through his innovative Moro Method. Employing specialized 3-D imaging and Doppler techniques, Moro gains insight into how a patient’s heart is functioning, which allows him to program the pacemaker— speciﬁcally for the patient. Florida Hospital is the only hospital in the world using this technique called echo resynchronization, designed and created to provide maximum beneﬁt to the patient. “I tell my patients to think of the pacemaker as a computer for a car. is same computer can be put into a Volkswagen or a Corvette. Both will idle ﬁne, but in order to get the best performance from either, the computer will need to be tuned or optimized to the needs of that motor,” says Moro, manager of Florida Hospital cardiac resynchronization therapy. Moro has performed more than 500 pacemaker optimizations with fewer than 10 percent of his patients receiving the same programming. is is truly personalized pacing. e Moro Method is another example of how Florida Hospital is changing the health of the Central Florida community. For more information on the Moro Method and echo resynchronization therapy, visit TakeMeToFloridaHospital.com. TakeMeToFloridaHospital.com I 11 http://www.TakeMeToFloridaHospital.com

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