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![Pulse Heart Institute Puget Sound Region team featured in Cath Lab Digest for performing 1000th TAVR procedure](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/TAVR-valve-2-340x270.jpg)
September 29, 2023
PSR TAVR Team performs first Transcarotid TAVR at Pulse
Pulse’s Tacoma General Hospital TAVR team expands their program with new access option for the less invasive heart treatment
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![Dr. CJ Hillenbrand](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/pulse-Hillenbrand_Charles-340x270.jpg)
September 25, 2023
Meet our new provider: Dr. CJ Hillenbrand, Vascular Surgery
Dr. Hillenbrand joins the Olympia Vascular Surgery Services team
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![Dr. Matthew Sather](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/pulse-Sather_Mathew-340x270.jpg)
September 14, 2023
Meet our new provider: Dr. Matthew Sather, Electrophysiology
Dr. Sather joins the EP team
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![Meet our providers: Dr. Elizabeth Carlson, Cardiothoracic Surgery](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/Elizabeth-carlson-1500x750-1-340x270.jpg)
September 14, 2023
Meet our new provider: Dr. Elizabeth Carlson, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Carlson joins the CT Surgery Team
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![QDOT MICRO catheter](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/Qdot-Micro-crop-1694701080-318x253.jpg)
September 13, 2023
Pulse Heart Institute Heart Institute first in state to utilize innovative Afib treatment
Pulse utilizes the groundbreaking Biosense Webster QDOT MICRO Radiofrequency (RF) Ablation Catheter technology in the Puget Sound Region.
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![Community generosity helps reunite Ukrainian family](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/Vaschuk-family-340x270.jpg)
July 25, 2023
Community generosity helps reunite Ukrainian family
Father diagnosed with myocarditis is reunited with his family thanks to the Helping Hands fund
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![Pulse patient survives 3 major cardiac events by age 23](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/Sechler-340x270.jpg)
July 24, 2023
Pulse patient survives 3 major cardiac events by age 23
Young patient survives major cardiac events that started at age 11
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![Pulse Heart Institute Puget Sound Region team performs 1000th TAVR procedure 1](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1485-340x270.jpg)
July 17, 2023
Pulse Heart Institute Puget Sound Region team featured in Cath Lab Digest for performing 1000th TAVR procedure
Pulse’s Tacoma General Hospital TAVR team reaches milestone in less-invasive heart treatment
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![Open Heart Surgery Support Group](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/support-group-340x270.jpeg)
July 10, 2023
Puget Sound Region Open Heart Surgery Support Group
Join us for the Puget Sound Region Pulse Open Heart Surgery Support Group, designed to help those that are planning or recovering from a surgery process with the cardiothoracic clinic.
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![Pulse and Graham first responders support family & one another at Good Samaritan](https://stg-pulse-heart.mccdn.io/wp-content/uploads/Good-Samaritan-Outside-Emergency-Department-340x270.jpg)
June 26, 2023
Pulse and Graham first responders support family & one another at Good Samaritan
How a young patient brought together a community.
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