What treatments are available for abnormal heart rhythms?

Abnormal heart rhythms can be typically broken down into sort of three broad categories. The first is you may not have the right number of heartbeats. That means the heart can go too slowly, even at rest or perhaps just when you're trying to do things. You may in a different type of category have the right number of heartbeats, but the heartbeat is uncoordinated. It's not beating as effectively as it should do. And the third rhythm issue that we typically might look to try and treat for you is if the heart rhythm goes too quickly and in a non-normal pattern. Now treatments may sometimes be just simply reassurances. We may sometimes use medicines for you, but sometimes we perform invasive procedures. Sometimes those invasive procedures might include a pacemaker that ensures that you'll have the right number of heartbeats. Sometimes we use a pacemaker to make sure that the heart can beat in a more coordinated fashion by positioning our pacing leads in the best place possible to try and replicate normal cardiac contraction for you. And thirdly, if needs be, we perform ablation procedures where we deal with abnormal cells or abnormal pathways within the heart that are responsible for abnormal firing of the heart's rhythm disturbances. And we aim to try and put these back to normal to stop them firing for you to try and give you more sustained normal rhythm, feeling better and potentially improving the heart pump function as well.