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NCRHA doctors do major heart procedure, first in region
In this stock photo from istock.com, a surgeon is picking up surgical tool from tray.
A team of doctors, led by head cardiologist Fareed Ali, have successfully done the Caribbean’s first-ever removal of a complex implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), otherwise known as a pacemaker.
In a release on Friday, the North Central Regional Health authority (NCHRA) said the high-risk procedure was done by a multidisciplinary team of doctors at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC), Mt Hope.
It said the team also included doctors specialised in chest, vessel, and general surgery, along with radiologists and anaesthesiologists.