Dr. Smita Kumar, MD is a doctor primarily located in New Delhi, NCT of Delhi. The doctor specializes as a Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Cardiologist, Heart Specialist and Intervention Cardiologist. The doctor speaks English, Hindi and Punjabi.
Degrees
Dr. Smita Kumar has the following degrees:
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY, 2011
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Doctor of Medicine (MD), 2009
Chattrapati Shahu ji Maharaj Medical University
Specialization: Physiology
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), 2005
Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences
Specializations
Dr. Smita Kumar has the following 4 specializations:
Cardiac Electrophysiologist, is a cardiologist, who is trained to treat heart rhythm disorders. Cardiac Electrophysiologist works on diagnosing and treating conditions including irregular heartbeat, slow heartbeat, fast heartbeat, fluttering of the heart muscle, cardiac arrest, Long QT syndrome, and irregular heartbeat caused by pregnancy or interactions with medicine.
A cardiologist provides medical care and treatment for a person who has been diagnosed with heart disease or a heart-related abnormality. Cardiologists specialize in the diagnosis or treatment of disease and conditions related to the cardiovascular system. Cardiologists help treat conditions such as a abnormal heart rhythm, heart failure, heart attack or provide advice on heart surgery. Cardiologists also work with the patient's primary-care doctors to help patients maintain a healthy life.
Cardiology is a study of medicine that deals with the diseases of heart as well as the circulatory system. Heart specialists (also called as cardiologists) are the doctors who are trained in diagnosing and treating the diseases of heart. Doctors who are trained in cardiac surgery are called cardiac surgeons. All the clinical cardiologists focus on the diagnosis and management by using medicines and prevention of heart disease. Some cardiologists are pediatric cardiologists, they diagnose and treat heart diseases in children. The cardiologists who treat only the adult patients, they specialize in the adult cardiology. Other cardiologists may specialize in different heart-related procedures that are balloon angioplasty, stent placement, echocardiography, or electrophysiology.
An interventional cardiologist is a specialist with one to two years of additional training and education in diagnosing and treating heart disease as well as present at birth (congenital) and structural heart conditions through angioplasty and stenting or other catheter-based procedure. Interventional cardiologists focus on the nonsurgical treatment of heart conditions. Interventional cardiology treatment often avoid excessive pain, scaring, and extended hospital stays.