City standardizes interventional treatment for heart diseases
20/12/2004 17:01
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
The Zhongshan
Hospital, Ruijin Hospital and Shanghai No.1 People's Hospital yesterday became
the city's first training centers specifically for training doctors in
interventional techniques for the treatment of heart diseases. This is part of a
local move to standardize interventional treatment.
Upon completion of the
training, the doctors will be certificated in interventional treatment.
Over
the last 20 years, a growing number of treatments for cardiovascular diseases
have been developed. Interventional techniques, with its success rate and short
treatment period is proving very popular. However, without a uniform treatment
standard, operations in China have high rate of complication and recurrence,
which causes an excessive waste of medical resources, said an industry
analyst.
The Ministry of Public Health will issue training textbooks, classes
and test procedures soon.
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