Volume 5 - Issue 11 - November 2005
05/01/2008
To understand where risk management is going, we need to appreciate its past. Historically, risk identification/ management was instituted in the corporate world in the 1940 s as a quality control technique. In the 1970 s, the nation faced a...
To understand where risk management is going, we need to appreciate its past. Historically, risk identification/ management was instituted in the corporate world in the 1940 s as a quality control technique. In the 1970 s, the nation faced a...
To understand where risk...
05/01/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/01/2008
New Questions:
Licensed Personnel
Double-checking Certain Medications During Procedures
I work in a university-based hospital electrophysiology lab. We have a policy that requires 2 licensed persons to check certain medications prior to...
New Questions:
Licensed Personnel
Double-checking Certain Medications During Procedures
I work in a university-based hospital electrophysiology lab. We have a policy that requires 2 licensed persons to check certain medications prior to...
New Questions:
Licensed...
05/01/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/01/2008
Many approaches to AF ablation have been proposed over the past 5-10 years. Some of these are catheter-based, and some require surgery. Catheter ablation approaches have included pulmonary vein isolation and creation of linear lesions. Most...
Many approaches to AF ablation have been proposed over the past 5-10 years. Some of these are catheter-based, and some require surgery. Catheter ablation approaches have included pulmonary vein isolation and creation of linear lesions. Most...
Many approaches to AF ablation...
05/01/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/01/2008
Background
The patient is a 17-year-old male diagnosed with ventricular preexcitation since the age of 9. Initially he complained of only intermittent palpitations, but more recently demonstrated an adenosine-sensitive sustained...
Background
The patient is a 17-year-old male diagnosed with ventricular preexcitation since the age of 9. Initially he complained of only intermittent palpitations, but more recently demonstrated an adenosine-sensitive sustained...
Background
The patient is a...
05/01/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/01/2008
What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members? What is the mix of credentials at your lab?
We have five cardiac catheterization labs, one of which functions as an electrophysiology lab. Our lab is staffed with...
What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members? What is the mix of credentials at your lab?
We have five cardiac catheterization labs, one of which functions as an electrophysiology lab. Our lab is staffed with...
What is the size of your EP lab...
05/01/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/01/2008
Summary of Recent Advisories
Medtronic, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) issued a physician advisory letter in February 2005 regarding an increased risk of sudden battery failure in some of its ICDs in the Marquis family. This involved a shorting...
Summary of Recent Advisories
Medtronic, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) issued a physician advisory letter in February 2005 regarding an increased risk of sudden battery failure in some of its ICDs in the Marquis family. This involved a shorting...
Summary of Recent...
05/01/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/01/2008
Not so very long ago, it was probably easier to win the lottery than qualify to get an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). ICDs were considered extreme measures for the most desperate cases. As such, patients had to have survived...
Not so very long ago, it was probably easier to win the lottery than qualify to get an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). ICDs were considered extreme measures for the most desperate cases. As such, patients had to have survived...
Not so very long ago, it was...
05/01/2008
EP Lab Digest
