Good Sam’s docs can keep hearts in rhythm

Ever worry about your heartbeat?

The folks at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette are available to help. And if they find something wrong, they have the expertise to fix it.

Exempla recently opened a new electrophysiology center — a place where doctors treat patients who have abnormal heart rhythms.

It might sound funny to talk about an “abnormal heart,” but this is no joke. Heart arrhythmia — disruption of the heart’s rhythm — can cause chest pain, heart palpitations, lightheadedness and death.

A treatment called ablation can help. A doctor threads a small catheter into the patient’s heart in a nonsurgical outpatient…