Volume 12 - Issue 4 - April 2012
03/23/2012
Asahi Kasei Announces Agreement to Acquire ZOLL MedicalAsahi Kasei Corporation and ZOLL Medical Corporation jointly announced that Asahi Kasei, Japan’s leading diversified chemical manufacturer with businesses in the health care, chemicals...
Asahi Kasei Announces Agreement to Acquire ZOLL MedicalAsahi Kasei Corporation and ZOLL Medical Corporation jointly announced that Asahi Kasei, Japan’s leading diversified chemical manufacturer with businesses in the health care, chemicals...
Asahi Kasei Announces Agreement...
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EP Lab Digest
03/23/2012
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS
Editor-in-Chief, EP Lab Digest
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRSEdit...
The 2007 HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) was recently updated. This document is a useful reference for those involved in interventional procedures for AF. Important...
The 2007 HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) was recently updated. This document is a useful reference for those involved in interventional procedures for AF. Important...
The 2007 HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert...
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EP Lab Digest
03/23/2012
Jane Kiah, RN, Director of Invasive Services, Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Miami, Florida; Program Director, Innovations in Cardiac and Vascular Care: Advanced Interventions for Nurses and Technologists, The International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET)
Dick Stueve, RT, radiation safety consultant to Philips Healthcare, providing on-site radiation safety courses for physicians, nurses and technologists performing fluoroscopically guided vascular interventions.
Jane Kiah, RN, Director of Invasive S...
Marie Curie died due to excess exposure to her discovery, radium. Thomas Edison invented the fluoroscope, but stopped his work in this area when his assistant died of an x-ray overdose. Many years later, we have a better understanding of the...
Marie Curie died due to excess exposure to her discovery, radium. Thomas Edison invented the fluoroscope, but stopped his work in this area when his assistant died of an x-ray overdose. Many years later, we have a better understanding of the...
Marie Curie died due to excess...
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EP Lab Digest
03/23/2012
Tell us about your background and how you came to work in this field. What interested you about EP?I was a board-certified practicing cardiac electrophysiologist for 20 years (Director, Cardiac EP at Pinnacle Health System, Harrisburg, PA)...
Tell us about your background and how you came to work in this field. What interested you about EP?I was a board-certified practicing cardiac electrophysiologist for 20 years (Director, Cardiac EP at Pinnacle Health System, Harrisburg, PA)...
Tell us about your background...
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EP Lab Digest
03/23/2012
Jaclyn Conelius, PhD, William DeForge, PhD*, Michael Pittaro, MD†, Mark Kroll, PhD
Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut; *St. Jude Medical, Norwalk, Connecticut; †Cardiology Associates of Fairfield County, Norwalk, Connecticut
Jaclyn Conelius, PhD, William DeForge...
Achieving an adequate defibrillation safety margin can sometimes be troublesome. Today’s implantable defibrillators allow for the programming of vector and polarity to overcome some of these issues. Some devices also allow the programming of...
Achieving an adequate defibrillation safety margin can sometimes be troublesome. Today’s implantable defibrillators allow for the programming of vector and polarity to overcome some of these issues. Some devices also allow the programming of...
Achieving an adequate...
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EP Lab Digest
03/23/2012
Syed A. Hussain, MD and M.A.
Siddiqui, MD, Chief, Division of Cardiology
Sinai-Grace Hospital
Detroit, Michigan
Syed A. Hussain, MD and M.A. Siddiqui...
A diagnosis of heart failure (HF), although treatable, requires lifestyle modification, adherence to medical management, and close follow up with the primary care physician and cardiologist. Today there are approximately five million patients...
A diagnosis of heart failure (HF), although treatable, requires lifestyle modification, adherence to medical management, and close follow up with the primary care physician and cardiologist. Today there are approximately five million patients...
A diagnosis of heart failure...
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EP Lab Digest
03/23/2012
Karthik Ramaswamy, MD, FHRS
Director, Electrophysiology
Laboratory
Arrhythmia Center at Missouri
Baptist Medical Center
Saint Louis, Missouri
Karthik Ramaswamy, MD, FHRSDirector, ...
Cryoballoon catheter ablation offers an alternative to radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). The goal of ablation for PAF is achievement of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). With radiofrequency...
Cryoballoon catheter ablation offers an alternative to radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). The goal of ablation for PAF is achievement of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). With radiofrequency...
Cryoballoon catheter ablation...
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EP Lab Digest
03/23/2012
Vem Acosta, RN, CCRN, Clinical Nurse II, Charge Nurse, Sequoia Hospital Electrophysiology Lab, and Rob Patrawala, MD, Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Silicon Valley Cardiology
Vem Acosta, RN, CCRN, Clinical Nurse ...
What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members?Sequoia Hospital’s cath lab has five rooms (two dedicated EP labs, one cardiac cath lab, one device room, and one IR room). We have 13 RNs, a special projects manager, and...
What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members?Sequoia Hospital’s cath lab has five rooms (two dedicated EP labs, one cardiac cath lab, one device room, and one IR room). We have 13 RNs, a special projects manager, and...
What is the size of your EP lab...
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EP Lab Digest
03/23/2012
Mellanie True Hills, Speaker and CEO, StopAfib.org
Decatur, Texas
Mellanie True Hills, Speaker and CEO,...
Atrial fibrillation can be bewildering for patients, especially when they’re first diagnosed. After all, their own hearts have betrayed them, beating out of rhythm, often leaving them exhausted, frustrated, and searching for answers....
Atrial fibrillation can be bewildering for patients, especially when they’re first diagnosed. After all, their own hearts have betrayed them, beating out of rhythm, often leaving them exhausted, frustrated, and searching for answers....
Atrial fibrillation can be...
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EP Lab Digest
03/23/2012
Mark A. Dixon, DO, Medical Director – Arrhythmia Services, and Chris Atherton, RN, BSN, MPA, Director – Arrhythmia Services
Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital
La Porte, Indiana
Mark A. Dixon, DO, Medical Director ‚...
IntroductionIn December 2011, we completed the final phase of a construction initiative to bring a state of the art Arrhythmia Center to Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital. This project included construction of procedural labs,...
IntroductionIn December 2011, we completed the final phase of a construction initiative to bring a state of the art Arrhythmia Center to Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital. This project included construction of procedural labs,...
IntroductionIn December 2011, we...
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EP Lab Digest
