Hypnosis used to operate on atrial fibrillation

Jan 13, 2020 534

Hypnosis has been used to operate on atrial fibrillation, a heart condition, for the first time in Italy. Hypnosis was used for analgesic or painkilling purposes, doctors said. Doctor Luca Bacino used it in the electrophysiological room of the San Paolo Hospital in the northwestern city of Savona.

Bacino has introduced hypnosis into clinical practice thanks to collaboration with the centre for arrhythmology of the Cardinal Massaia Hospital in Asti, north of Turin. Bacino did so after frequenting the Italian school of hypnosis, CIICS, in Turin.

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