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Weekly JAMA Feature for January 26
HEATED CATHETER FOR A-FIB
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo: 4pm(ET) Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Radio script (TRT APPROX. :59)
January 26, 2010
VO: ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, A COMMON HEART RHYTHM PROBLEM, IS TRIGGERED BY RAPID BEATING FROM CELLS IN THE MUSCLE SLEEVES AROUND THE PULMONARY VEINS. A NEW STUDY SHOWS A PROCEDURE USING HEAT CALLED CATHETER ABLATION, MAY BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN DRUGS IN TREATING AN INTERMITTMENT FORM OF THIS CONDITION.
“It’s become clear that blocking those electrical impulses from being transmitted to the rest of the heart can prevent Atrial Fibrillation in a substantial number of patients.”
VO: IN RESEARCH FEATURED THIS WEEK IN JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, DR. DAVID WILBER FROM LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AND CO-AUTHORS CONDUCTED A RANDOMIZED TRIAL WITH 167 PATIENTS IN 19 HOSPITALS BETWEEN OCTOBER 2004 AND 2007. 106 HAD CATHETER ABLATION, 61 WERE TREATED WITH ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS.
“Compared to continued attempts at drug therapy, catheter ablation dramatically decreased the risk of a recurrent episode of Atrial Fibrillation.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT APPROX. :59)
January 26, 2010
VO: ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, A COMMON HEART RHYTHM PROBLEM, IS TRIGGERED BY RAPID BEATING FROM CELLS IN THE MUSCLE SLEEVES AROUND THE PULMONARY VEINS. A NEW STUDY SHOWS A PROCEDURE USING HEAT CALLED CATHETER ABLATION, MAY BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN DRUGS IN TREATING AN INTERMITTMENT FORM OF THIS CONDITION.
“It’s become clear that blocking those electrical impulses from being transmitted to the rest of the heart can prevent Atrial Fibrillation in a substantial number of patients.”
VO: IN RESEARCH FEATURED THIS WEEK IN JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, DR. DAVID WILBER FROM LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AND CO-AUTHORS CONDUCTED A RANDOMIZED TRIAL WITH 167 PATIENTS IN 19 HOSPITALS BETWEEN OCTOBER 2004 AND 2007. 106 HAD CATHETER ABLATION, 61 WERE TREATED WITH ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS.
“Compared to continued attempts at drug therapy, catheter ablation dramatically decreased the risk of a recurrent episode of Atrial Fibrillation.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.