Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP)
What is EECP Treatment?
Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP) is a non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical, outpatient treatment for relieving and eliminating chest pain or shortness of breath by improving the blood circulation in the heart. EECP treatment is FDA approved, entirely safe, painless, carries no risk, and has no major adverse side effects.
How EECP Helps?
The basic principle of EECP treatment involves increasing the amount of blood returning to the heart, which helps supply more oxygen to its starved areas.
How EECP Works?
EECP treatment is administered through three pairs of external air inflatable pressure cuffs that are applied around the lower legs, lower & upper thighs.
These cuffs continuously inflate and deflate between the resting period of the heartbeat and increases the blood flow to the heart muscles by gently and firmly pressing the blood vessels via the cuffs placed in the legs and thighs. More blood reaches the heart when it is relaxing. The increase in blood flow to the heart muscle eventually can restore the deficient blood supply.
EECP Treatment Procedure
EECP treatment is a continuous treatment that stretches to 35 hours.
This period is broken into every day one hour periods spread over six days a week. Treatment is a painless and comfortable procedure.
EECP treatment procedure involves no Hospitalization or risks.
In some instances, as per the physician’s advice, it can be taken twice daily with an interval of 4–5 hours and can be completed in three weeks.
Patients are advised to take the treatment without frequent interruptions. Missed treatments are usually made up, so patient receive all 35 sessions. During the EECP treatment, procedure is not abnormal to feel tired after the first few sessions, but this will pass as the sessions progress. Each patient responds differently. Most patients begin to feel improvement after about 15–20 sessions. The treatment schedule includes 35 continuous sessions, which require daily visits for one hour to the medical centre.
Who can Benefit from EECP?
- Patients with blockages in the artery carrying blood to the heart muscle.
- Patients who had a Heart attack.
- Patients who want alternative treatment to Bypass Surgery and Angioplasty.
- Patients whom Bypass Surgery and Angioplasty has failed.
- Patients who have chest pain/shortness of breath.
- Patients where medical treatments are not able to relieve their cardiac symptoms.
- Patients who have already had a cardiac surgery/Angioplasty and symptoms have returned.
- Patients who can't undergo Bypass Surgery/Angioplasty.
- Patients who are not willing to undergo invasive Bypass surgery/Angioplasty.
- Patients with very Poor Heart Pumping Function or Poor health, EECP is the only treatment option to restore their health.
Advantage of EECP Treatment
EECP treatment not only covers the whole heart’s well-being, but also improve the entire vascular system, and, unlike surgery, it is not a ‘localized’ procedure. Thus overall holistic benefits are more.
- There is no hospitalization, as the procedure is an outpatient procedure.
- There is no risk of infection, as the procedure is non-invasive.
- There is no bleeding or risk of blood clots.
- There is no downtime. It is simply a walk-in and walk-out procedure/session every time.
- There is no anaesthesia administered for EECP procedures. EECP is completely painless.
- EECP has no adverse side effects. EECP does not affect other parts or organs of the body.
- There is no risk of complications in EECP, as it is an external procedure performed by mechanical means.
- There is no need to take any additional or separate medication for EECP.
- The benefits of EECP have been scientifically proved and well documented worldwide.
- In EECP, there is no recuperation time.
- While promising similar relief like Bypass and Angioplasty, EECP procedures are much more cost-effective when compared to surgical procedures.
- It is a well-known fact that heart surgeries require delicate precision and can be technically challenging. Hence, the risk of complications is more.
Additional Benefits of EECP Treatment
Recent studies have shown that EECP can also be an effective treatment for
Erectile Dysfunction
Stroke
Kidney
Eyes
Hypertension
Diabetes Mellitus
Artery Clearance Therapy (ACT)
What is Artery Clearance Therapy?
Artery Clearance Therapy is a common name of a medical procedure which is the combination of five different IV drips administered by heart patients to improve and restore coronary blood flow & elasticity of the blood vessels. Artery Clearance Therapy is a non-operative, most effective, safest, and most inexpensive outpatient treatment available when comparing to costly surgeries.
How Artery Clearance Therapy Helps?
The basic principle of Artery Clearance Therapy is
- To improve the coronary blood flow to the heart by controlling the process of Atherosclerosis.
- Prevent Endothelial Dysfunction
{Endothelial Dysfunction is a type of non-obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) in which there are no heart artery blockages, but the large blood vessels on the heart’s surface constrict (narrow) instead of dilating (opening)}.
How Artery Clearance Therapy Works?
Artery Clearance Therapy is an intravenous infusion by which a small amino acid called ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid (commonly abbreviated EDTA) is administered to a patient intravenously, prescribed by and under the supervision of a licensed health care practitioner. The IV fluid containing EDTA is infused through a small needle placed in the vein of a patient’s arm. The EDTA infusion bonds with unbalanced metals in the body and quickly redistributes them in a healthy way, or carries them away in the urine. Abnormally situated nutritional metals, such as iron, along with toxic elements such as lead, mercury and aluminum are easily removed by Artery Clearance Therapy. Normally present minerals and trace elements which are essential for health are more tightly bound within the body and can be maintained with a properly balanced nutritional supplement.
Benefits of Artery Clearance Therapy
Artery Clearance Therapy enhances the flow of blood all over the body, thus improving health. Clearing the blocks without surgery through this treatment is the greatest blessing that a patient can receive. Artery Clearance Therapy is a boon of the immense advancement of medical science. It is the safest, most inexpensive therapy available today. It not only removes blockages from the arterial blood vessels but also restores blood flow in atherosclerotic regions. Patients who probably would have had to undergo surgical intervention get cured.
Artery Clearance Therapy treats Angina Pectoris, Heart attacks (Myocardial Infarction), arterial blocks, the narrowing of the cerebral blood vessels, Strokes, Transient Ischemic Attacks, Hypertension, and Parkinsonism
