IPC Heart Care Centre introduces for the first time in Maharastra EECP.EECP is available for treating angina in all leading hospitals of the world, including Cleveland, Mayo, Stony Brooks and Escort Heart hospital in Delhi.

If you or someone you know is among the more than 60 million people in this country who suffer the crippling chest pain of angina pectoris, you should know about EECP therapy.
External Enhanced Counter Pulsation.

"Enhanced" refers to the state-of-the-art technology that has developed during decades of research and is used for EECP® treatment today. EECP® treatment is "external" because it happens outside the body and does not require surgery or other invasive procedures. Counter pulsation occurs between heartbeats.

Developed by Vasomedical, Inc., EECP has been tested in multicentre, controlled, clinical studies, with positive medical results and demonstrated quality of life improvement. Enhancing your life's rhythm is the heart of EECP. And with Medicare's coverage, there's one more good reason to ask your doctor if EECP is the treatment for you.

When patients have angina, their bodies are telling them that their heart is not receiving enough oxygen. A treatment, in harmony with patient’s heart, can improve circulation to the heart muscle. After EECP® treatment, patients may find that: they can walk farther; carry heavier packages and be more active without having angina; they have fewer attacks of angina; their episodes of angina are less intense; they need less anti-angina medication; they can return to work, go out to dinner, garden, travel, or enjoy golf, tennis, or bowling once again; they no longer restrict their social lives, volunteer activities, or exercise because they are worried that they will cause angina.

You may have changed the way that you live, work, or spend your spare time because you have angina.

A therapy for angina called EECP may make it possible for you to take part in the activities you enjoy once again without suffering from attacks of angina. This treatment, which does not involve surgery or hospitalization, has helped many people with coronary artery disease.
This treatment is called Enhanced External Counter pulsation, and will be referred to as EECP during the presentation. EECP can eliminate or reduce angina. People who have received this treatment often report having a “new lease on life.”

Let’s look at the anatomy of the heart so you can understand how EECP treatment works. During the cardiac cycle, the heart muscle works and then rests. When the heart works, it contracts and pumps blood out to the body. This is called systole.

The heart requires a particularly rich blood supply because of its heavy workload and receives this nourishing blood supply through the coronary arteries. When the heart rests, it relaxes and fills with blood. This is called diastole.

Angina is a hard-to-live-with symptom of coronary artery disease. When you have an attack of angina, your body is telling your that your heart is not receiving enough oxygen

When narrowed or blocked arteries restrict blood flow, parts of the heart muscle need more oxygen than is supplied by the diseased artery, causing discomfort and pain.

The coronary arteries have many branches, like a tree. The smaller arteries branch into even smaller vessels.

Your body has natural solutions to pain and problems caused by narrowed arteries. When an artery is partially blocked, the body can often increase the amount of blood flowing to the muscle by opening up tiny branches, connecting nearby vessels to vessels downstream of the blockage. These networks of tiny blood vessels are called collateral circulation.

Collaterals make it possible for blood to detour around blocked or narrowed arteries. However, the development of collateral circulation is a gradual process and not everyone has the natural ability to develop these networks at a rate that will relieve angina.

You may be one of the many heart patients who takes nitroglycerin to relieve your pain. Unfortunately, patients often find their medication is not giving them enough relief. Some patients find that medication becomes less effective over time.

EECP treatment is a noninvasive approach that has provided relief for many people
This treatment, which works in harmony with your heart, may improve circulation to your heart muscle. EECP treatment appears to stimulate the opening of natural pathways around narrowed or blocked arteries.

The name Enhanced External Counter pulsation explains what will happen during treatment. EECP is external because it happens outside of your body and doesn’t require surgery.

Counter pulsation means that the EECP system pumps when the heart is resting. This increases blood flow to the heart (see the arrows moving upwards), therefore increasing oxygen supply to the heart.

Counter pulsation stops pumping when the heart is working. This decreases the heart’s workload, creating less oxygen demand.
EECP treatment works with the normal rhythm of your heart to help your body heal itself.

Clinical studies indicate that EECP treatment may create a natural bypass around blocked arteries. EECP treatment encourages enlargement of tiny blood vessels that can become extra branches. These channels or collaterals may eventually become permanent conduits to the heart muscle that was previously deprived of blood flow and adequate oxygen.

Your doctor will evaluate you to determine if you are eligible to receive EECP treatment. You may be a candidate for EECP treatment if you have angina, nitrates are providing insufficient relief from angina, you have been told that you are not a candidate for bypass surgery or angioplasty, you underwent invasive procedures in the past and your chest pain has returned, or you would like to explore all of your treatment options.

Patients receive EECP treatment on an outpatient basis. This treatment does not involve hospitalization or recuperation.
It is important to understand the typical treatment schedule. Patients attend one-hour treatment sessions once a day, five days a week, for seven weeks. Many people have continued working while receiving treatment by scheduling their sessions before or after work.

During treatment, you will lie on a padded table in a treatment room. The therapist will wrap a set of cuffs around your calves, thighs, and buttocks.

The cuffs inflate and press against your legs, massaging the muscles of your lower body. Patients feel the sensation of a strong “hug” moving upwards from their calves to thighs to buttocks during inflation, followed by the rapid release of pressure.

The cuffs inflate and expand during diastole, when the heart is at rest. The cuffs deflate and collapse during systole, when the heart is at work.

The inflation and deflation of the cuffs are electronically synchronized with your heartbeat using an ECG signal.

By monitoring these readings your EECP therapist can time counter pulsation accurately
After a few sessions, most patients become used to treatment. They often read, listen to music on headsets, and even sleep. Some patients say that they find the treatment relaxing.

Clinical studies have shown that EECP treatment is effective for reducing angina. A controlled double-blind study showed a significant increase in the length of time that participants who had received active treatment were able to exercise before their ECGs showed signs of oxygen deprivation of the heart muscle. Study participants who received inactive treatment showed no significant improvement. Additionally, participants who received active treatment experienced fewer attacks of angina.