Healthbeat 4: First MercyOne Siouxland patient receives Cardiac Contractility Modulation Therapy procedure [Video]

“I was pretty bad shape, I thought I was going to die soon.”

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) – Brad Hedlund has been in and out of appointments with cardiologists dealing with heart failure over the last decade.

Hedlund explained his symptoms as “I had no energy. I had no drive. I got tired walking from my chair to the door and I didn’t want to do anything.”

Dr. Gary Chan is Hedlund’s cardiologist, treating Brad for the last year and a half, trying to manage his heart failure symptoms.

Dr. Chan says heart failure matters.

What exactly is heart failure? Dr. Chan says, “Heart failure is the inability of the heart to pump blood well enough to meet the demands of the body. As a result, the patient will feel symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, coughing, fluid buildup in the body in the ability to lay on the bed without getting short …