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Today's News |Dubai |
Staff Reporter | Monday, June 11, 2007
Renowned cardiology surgeon performs first "Live Demonstration"
at Zulekha Hospital
(Dubai Health & News)
Over 200 cardiologists and other
physicians attended a Live Demonstration Course in Basic and Advanced
Interventional Cardiology on June 9th at Hotel Grand Hyatt, for the
first time ever in Dubai from a private hospital.
The cardiologists attending the meeting were from the UAE and
surrounding countries, as well as from Europe and the United States.
The objective of the course was to provide doctors in the region with 'Hands-on Workshop' experience conducted by the upcoming Shawl Cardiovascular Institute and Research Centre (SCIRC) at Zulekha Hospital, Dubai. This programme is a prestigious part of Synapse, the Branded CME programme of Zulekha Hospital, which provides continuing educational programmes to healthcare professionals in the region.
The Live Demonstration featured Dr. Fayaz Shawl, M.D. and his world renowned faculty demonstrating complex Interventional cardiology cases.
Dr. Fayaz Shawl, M.D. is Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine at George Washington University, USA and Director of Interventional Cardiology at Washington Adventist Hospital, Maryland. In the early days of Angioplasty, Dr. Shawl brought the U.S. military into the balloon age when he performed the first PTCA at a military hospital (Walter Reed,). One of the pioneers of interventional cardiology, Dr. Shawl trained under Andreas Gruentzig and Richard Myler. During his practicing days conducting high risk cases, he has developed his own, indigenous method of Interventional procedure, which later has come to be known as the 'Shawl Technique'. He has been sharing his expertise and in-depth experience in Interventional procedures through Live Demonstration courses since 1988.Having performed over 18,000 interventional procedures, Dr. Shawl is probably credited to have performed more interventional procedures than anyone else in the world.
Dr. Fayaz Shawl, the Chairman of upcoming SCIRC, at Zulekha Hospital, Dubai, believes that 'live-procedure-view' teaching is the most effective and that doctors who come to attend the course want to watch every detail: the good, the bad and the ugly. In fact Live Demonstration means to demonstrate the entire procedure. It becomes very important to show how to make necessary wire tips, select appropriate balloons, how to park and most important how to avoid complications.
The telecast also demonstrated for the first time not only in the UAE, but the entire Middle East, the use of Impella left heart assist device. This device is inserted without surgery through the groin artery while the patient is awake and talking, even if his heart stops functioning. With the use of this artificial left heart assist device, the angioplasty can be carried out in a safe manner.
Live Demonstration telecasts bring a unique platform for participants to interact with a world renowned faculty later in a relaxed interactive setting. This programme differs from other CME programmes, where it offers comprehensive 'cases of year' in review of the field presented with 'Hands on work shop' on the very next day of the procedure. This enables the attending doctors to ask all the queries that would be fresh in their mind from watching the Live Demonstration on the earlier day.
To learn more about interventional cardiology procedures and Dr. Shawl, visit
www.FayazShawl.com.
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