Atrial Fibrillation Explained: Understanding The Next Cardiac Epidemic
About this ebook
An ageing population and our Western lifestyle are ensuring that the prevalence of atrial fibrillation, often referred to by its initials, AF, is increasing at such a rate that it is predicted to be the next cardiac epidemic. Despite it being so widespread, AF does not allow a one-treatment-for-all approach. While it can be managed, currently AF cannot be cured, so you could have it for a long time.
Atrial Fibrillation Explained is a must-read for sufferers and those who care about them, medical practitioners and anyone planning to live into a healthy, old age. Having a better understanding of AF as a disease and learning about its treatment will open up meaningful conversations between patients and their medical practitioners, leading to greater insight into the best way to look after the condition in personal sets of circumstances.
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About the author
Doctor Warrick Bishop is a 3-Time #1 International Best Selling Author and Cardiologist with special interest in cardiovascular disease prevention incorporating imaging, lipids and lifestyle.
He is author of "Have You Planned Your Heart Attack?" with over 20,000 copies in print; the book is a discussion for patients and doctors about how we can be most precise about cardiovascular risk and save lives!
Graduating from the University of Tasmania, School of Medicine, in 1988. He worked in the Northern Territory and South Australia before completing his advanced training in cardiology in Hobart, Tasmania, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians and Member of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand in 1997.
Working predominately in private practice. In 2009 Warrick undertook training in CT Cardiac Coronary Angiography, being the first cardiologist in Tasmania with this specialist recognition.
Penelope Edman is a freelance writer, editor and photographer based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. After beginning her print journalism career in Bundaberg, Queensland, in the late 1970s, she moved to Hobart in 1991. She is an Australasian award-winning journalist and editor, and her articles and photographs have been published throughout Australia and internationally. She authored four non-fiction books before assisting Dr Bishop with Have you Planned Your Heart Attack? and Atrial Fibrillation Explained.
Professor Garry Jennings Ao is Executive Director of Sydney Health Partners and is recognised as a world leader in translating research into better health outcomes for the community. He is former head of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, and of the Department of Cardiology at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. He has had a long association with the Heart Foundation in various leadership roles.
A distinguished cardiologist and researcher, Prof. Jennings has written more than 450 scientific and medical publications, and a number of books on heart disease for the general community.
Dr David O'Donnell is the Chairman of GenesisCare Cardiology, Victoria, andt he Board Director for the GenesisCare Network. He is the head of Electrophysiology at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Having studied at Melbourne University and the Austin Hospital, his advanced training was in Europe. This led to a clinical focus on abalation for atrial fibrillation and a research interest in the device management of heart failure.
Dr O'Donnell has had a longstanding clinical interest in the management of all aspects of atrial fibrillation. He is one of Australia's most experienced atrial fibrillation abalation specialists, having personally performed more than 3000 procedures. At the same time, he has a specific focus on the lifestyle measures that contribute to AF and the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to the optimal management of these.
He also has a specific interest in the management of arrythmias in athletes and currently works with a number of sporting bodies and elite athletes.
