Day-in-the-Life: Cardiology - Pavan Malur, MD

So right now I'm going to see a patient that I saw yesterday in clinic. This lady that came in that had a rhythm issue called AFib on a blood thinner. Hi, my name is Pavan Malur. I'm a cardiologist at Ochsner. I've always enjoyed cardiology, and I personally enjoy cardiac physiology and how the heart works and how the structure of the heart is. And I feel like, you know, with the technology and medicines we have right now, there's so many tools we have at our fingertips. Hey, how are you doing today? How are you feeling? I'm feeling better. Okay, I'm glad you came in yesterday, and then we got you to the hospital quickly. So generally I do a lot of stress testing and echocardiograms in order to evaluate the heart function. Ultimately we have a whole team of cardiologists along with me, including interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists, heart failure specialists that we all are on the same team, so it's basically a team-based approach. And I focus more on prevention. As we know, it's easier to prevent something than treat something. Here's a gentleman that came in with heart failure. He's been here for four or five days so far. And essentially, there he is. It's important to have a good general balance in terms of diet and exercise along with any medical treatment as needed. I also believe in a big deal in meditation. I believe that's something that a lot of us, we don't do enough of. Meditation itself can lower risk of heart disease by lowering blood pressure, cortisol levels, help with diabetes even, and also stress levels. My grandfather was a heart patient, and I've seen him firsthand what he went through with heart disease and how he struggled and eventually how he overcame it. My father is a physician too, and then I started doing more research into it, and obviously going through medical school definitely showed me what I wanted to do, which was cardiology.