{"id":40460,"date":"2026-06-16T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=40460"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:39:51","slug":"watson-il-woman-undergoes-groundbreaking-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/40460-watson-il-woman-undergoes-groundbreaking-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson IL Woman Undergoes Groundbreaking Procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><em>Carolyn Burk and her son, Mark<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seventy-five year old Carolyn Burk of Watson has suffered with Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) since she was a teenager.\u00a0 She is now the first patient in Illinois to receive a groundbreaking procedure performed by Dr. Bharath Rajagopalan of Prairie Cardiovascular.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rajagopalan says that Abbott&#8217;s Volt Pulsed Field Ablation or (PFA) System is the latest technology using PFA- short, rapid pulses of electricity- to precisely map, target and destroy small portions of heart tissue contributing to the irregular heart rhythm.\u00a0 The Volt procedure also allows eligible patients to forgo general anesthesia and opt for sedation.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors at Prairie Cardiovascular are grateful to be able to perform this innovative procedure that has helped Carolyn Burk feel her best.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the doctors of Prairie Cardiovascular, call 888-4PRAIRIE or visit hshs.org\/heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn Burk and her son, Mark Seventy-five year old Carolyn Burk of Watson has suffered with Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) since she was a teenager.\u00a0 She is now the first patient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":40461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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