Volume 3 - Issue 3 - March 2007
05/03/2008
Describe your medical background. What made you decide to work in EP?
Actually, I started in healthcare as a housekeeper in the early 1970s. Over the next few years, after having varying majors at several colleges, I supported myself in a...
Describe your medical background. What made you decide to work in EP?
Actually, I started in healthcare as a housekeeper in the early 1970s. Over the next few years, after having varying majors at several colleges, I supported myself in a...
Describe your medical...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/03/2008
Our lab is staffed by many individuals, all of whom bring their own expertise. There are four electrophysiologists who perform cases in our lab on a daily basis. In addition, our lab includes nine registered nurses, seven of whom have...
Our lab is staffed by many individuals, all of whom bring their own expertise. There are four electrophysiologists who perform cases in our lab on a daily basis. In addition, our lab includes nine registered nurses, seven of whom have...
Our lab is staffed by many...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/03/2008
Stephen Artman, Ablation Specialist
Stephen Artman, Ablation Specialist
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What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members? When was the EP lab started at your institution? What is the mix of credentials at your lab?
Presently we have 1.5 EP labs, and in February 2007 we start reconstruction...
What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members? When was the EP lab started at your institution? What is the mix of credentials at your lab?
Presently we have 1.5 EP labs, and in February 2007 we start reconstruction...
What is the size of your EP lab...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/03/2008
Case History
A 62-year-old man underwent a catheter ablation procedure for recurrent idiopathic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). He was having several daily episodes of AF that were inadequately controlled with antiarrhythmic therapy....
Case History
A 62-year-old man underwent a catheter ablation procedure for recurrent idiopathic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). He was having several daily episodes of AF that were inadequately controlled with antiarrhythmic therapy....
Case History
A 62-year-old man...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/03/2008
Describe high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). How long has this technology been available?
The primary goal of ablation with ultrasound is to heat tissue through ultrasound energy...
Describe high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). How long has this technology been available?
The primary goal of ablation with ultrasound is to heat tissue through ultrasound energy...
Describe high intensity focused...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/03/2008
In 2005, the results of the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT) were released and published.1 The study followed approximately 2,500 ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy patients over at least five years; patients were...
In 2005, the results of the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT) were released and published.1 The study followed approximately 2,500 ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy patients over at least five years; patients were...
In 2005, the results of the...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/03/2008
Chirag Sandesara, MD and Brian Olshansky, MD
Chirag Sandesara, MD and Brian Olshan...
Case Report
A 68-year-old male with coronary artery disease presented with three episodes of syncope within two weeks. Each episode was sudden, unexpected and without prodrome. One episode (witnessed by his neighbor) occurred after he...
Case Report
A 68-year-old male with coronary artery disease presented with three episodes of syncope within two weeks. Each episode was sudden, unexpected and without prodrome. One episode (witnessed by his neighbor) occurred after he...
Case Report
A 68-year-old male...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/03/2008
New Questions:
Grounding Pads
We need some advice in reference to the correct placement of the grounding pad for RF ablation. In our lab, we have placed the pad toward the left side of the upper back. Are there alternative sites that can...
New Questions:
Grounding Pads
We need some advice in reference to the correct placement of the grounding pad for RF ablation. In our lab, we have placed the pad toward the left side of the upper back. Are there alternative sites that can...
New Questions:
Grounding Pads...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/03/2008
Reviewed by Esther Weiss, RN, MSN, APN,
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cardiac Arrhythmia Services
Reviewed by Esther Weiss, RN, MSN, AP...
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: For patients, their families and interested physicians, Second Edition is very accurately targeted as the book itself claims, to patients, their families, and interested physicians (as well as other interested...
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: For patients, their families and interested physicians, Second Edition is very accurately targeted as the book itself claims, to patients, their families, and interested physicians (as well as other interested...
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy:...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
05/03/2008
Dennis Holloway, MBA, CVT, Director of Diagnostic Cardiovascular Services
Dennis Holloway, MBA, CVT, Director o...
Training is probably one of the most vital aspects of cath lab excellence. Training, which eventually turns into what is called continuing education after an individual is more skilled, must be ongoing throughout every cath lab professional's...
Training is probably one of the most vital aspects of cath lab excellence. Training, which eventually turns into what is called continuing education after an individual is more skilled, must be ongoing throughout every cath lab professional's...
Training is probably one of the...
05/03/2008
EP Lab Digest
