ECP THERAPY
Alternative to Bypass Heart Surgery
We are the sole facility to offer External Counterpulsation (ECP) Therapy to our patients in The Eastern Caribbean. ECP Treatment is an FDA approved non-invasive heart treatment, which increases a person’s blood flow to the heart and opens new blood vessels, called collaterals.
Acting as an alternative to bypass surgery and angioplasty, the therapy is beneficial for patients with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney disease, high cholesterol, obesity, ischemic stroke, and many other medical conditions.
Effects of ECP
Clinical trials have confirmed that about 80 to 90 percent of patients feel significantly better after completing a course of therapy. Patients typically report less frequent or severe chest pain, less use of nitroglycerin, less shortness of breath, improved energy, and a greater ability to resume the activities of daily life.
BENEFITS OF ECP/EECP THERAPY
- Promotion of Collateralization
- Heart Disease Prevention
- Improvement in oxygen consumption (VO2)
- Regression of atherosclerosis
- Improvement in ventricular function
- Increase in cardiac output
- Decrease in cardiac workload
- Release in growth factors
- Reduction in Angina & Heart Failure symptoms & classifications
- Decrease Medication
- Increases Circulation
- Sustainable Increase in Coronary Perfusion
- Strengthens the heart muscle by reviving parts of the heart that have hibernated from lack of blood flow
- Sustainable relief of symptoms related to Ischemic Heart disease
- Eliminates Heart Disease
- Improvement in sexual function for men
- Reduces blood pressure
- Decrease workload of the heart
- Retrograde Arterial Flow (Shear Stress) increases endothelial function
- Peripheral Training effects (similar to exercise)
- Cardiac Remodelling (stunned & hibernated myocardium)
- Strengthens Heart
- Strengthens the heart muscle by reviving parts of the heart that have hibernated from lack of blood flow
- Increase in perfusion creates natural bypasses around narrowed arteries in heart as well as other organs such as the lungs, kidneys, liver & the brain
- Promotion of Collateralization
- Improvement in oxygen consumption (VO2)
- Regression of atherosclerosis
- Improvement in ventricular function
- Increase in cardiac output
- Decrease in cardiac workload
- Release in growth factors
- Reduction in Angina & Heart Failure symptoms & classifications
- Decrease Medication
- Increases Circulation
- Sustainable Increase in Coronary Perfusion
- Strengthens the heart muscle by reviving parts of the heart that have hibernated from lack of blood flow
- Sustainable relief of symptoms related to Ischemic Heart disease
- Heart Disease Prevention
- Eliminates Heart Disease
- Improvement in sexual function for men
- Reduces blood pressure
- Decrease workload of the heart
- Retrograde Arterial Flow (Shear Stress) increases endothelial function
- Peripheral Training effects (similar to exercise)
- Cardiac Remodelling (stunned & hibernated myocardium)
- Strengthens Heart
- Strengthens the heart muscle by reviving parts of the heart that have hibernated from lack of blood flow
- Increase in perfusion creates natural bypasses around narrowed arteries in heart as well as other organs such as the lungs, kidneys, liver & the brain