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Volume 12 - Issue 4 - April 2012

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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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
Highlights of the Updated Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Consensus Statement
03/23/2012
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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
The Importance of Radiation Safety for Healthcare Workers as Well as Patients
03/23/2012
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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
10-Minute Interview: David Lee Scher, MD, FACC, FESC, FHRS
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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
Programming of the Individual Phases of the Defibrillation Waveform to Achieve an Adequate Defibrillation Safety Margin: Utilization of a Surrogate Cardiac Membrane Time Constant
03/23/2012
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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
Quadripolar Technology: Case Study and Initial Experience
03/23/2012
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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
Cryoballoon Ablation for PAF: Considerations for the First Case
03/23/2012
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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
Spotlight Interview: Sequoia Hospital
03/23/2012
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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
How Social Media Helps Educate Afib Patients: Patient Perspectives from the Fifth Annual Western AF Symposium
03/23/2012
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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
Clinical and Operational Considerations for the Hansen Medical Sensei Robotic Catheter System
03/23/2012
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...
03/23/2012
EP Lab Digest
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