Eastern India's First Pulsed Field Ablation Is Performed at Narayana RN Tagore Hospital in Mukundapur

News Desk, News Nation 360: By completing the first-ever Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) in Eastern India, Narayana RN Tagore Hospital, Mukundapur, has advanced a significant clinical frontier in cardiac electrophysiology. The innovative use of this cutting-edge, tissue-selective platform, spearheaded by Dr Debabrata Bera, Clinical Lead for the Cardiac EP Program at Narayana Health (East), and his team, significantly improved operative efficiency, reducing the duration of conventional thermal ablation procedures from up to four hours to just 40 to 50 minutes. The non-thermal method, which uses brief electrical pulses rather than traditional heat or extreme cold, enables electrophysiologists to target abnormal heart rhythm tissues specifically while totally removing the possibility of structural damage to the nearby oesophagus, phrenic nerve, and pulmonary veins. Drs. Saroj Kumar Choudhury and Amira Shaik, interventional cardiologists and electrophysiologists who co-analysed the launch, pointed out that PFA compatibility with conscious sedation guarantees less discomfort, shorter hospital stays, and even same-day discharges. On the launch day alone, the hospital successfully finished five consecutive surgeries in ten hours as part of Narayana Health's Comprehensive AFib Management Program across internationally renowned EP systems like Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, and Abbott. Group COO Mr. R. Venkatesh and Cluster Head Mr. Abhijit C. P. emphasised the organization's overarching goal of healthcare democratisation by announcing that Narayana Health is providing this cutting-edge super-specialty treatment package—including the entire hospital stay—at an unprecedented, affordable baseline price of just Rs. 2.5 Lakhs, making global standards of cardiac care accessible to patients from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds in West Bengal, the Northeast, and nearby countries.