Cardiac resynchronisation therapy is a special treatment for certain people with heart failure.

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When the heart is pumping poorly is becomes uncoordinated.  This special pacemaker has an extra lead the delivers a pacing impulse to both sides of the heart at once.  This makes the pumping action coordinated once more, or resynchronised.

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This type of treatment can radically improve patients symptoms of breathlessness and has also been shown to improve life expectancy.

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The implantation procedure is very much like having a pacemaker fitted but given the complexity of the extra lead, the procedure can take longer.  These procedure are also usually undertaken with local anaesthetic as a day case procedure.

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