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Imperial College Healthcare Private Care - Cardiology

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Dr Daniel Keene, Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, explains the contributor’s specialist role and experience in this video, covering their clinical background, areas of expertise and approach to supporting patients through private care. This offers practical, patient-friendly guidance for those considering private care.

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So my name is Daniel Keane. I'm one of the consultant cardiologists and electrophysiologists at Imperial College Healthcare Private Care. I'm also an academic associate professor at Imperial College University. I typically look after all aspects of general cardiology as well as being an electrician for the heart looking at all electrical issues be that too slow heartbeats or too fast heartbeats or uncoordinated heartbeats and for you that might mean that I can help you understand what your problem is understand what's going on with your heart rhythm or your heart pump function and work together to work out what we can do to make things better for you understand the problem help you to then understand the problem and then work out a personalized treatment plan for you which might involve reassurance might involve medicines might involve an invasive procedure we try and aim to fix heartbeats when they go too slowly heartbeats where although there's the right number of heartbeats they're beating in a disc synchronous or uncoordinated fashion we aim to try and make them beat more effectively and we also aim to treat heart rhythm disturbances where at times the heartbeat goes too quickly in a range of rhythm disturbances where we aim to try and understand exactly the mechanism for this abnormality and try and remedy it to make you feel better and to improve your heart pump function to make you to make you thrive that's the aim of the game

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