Volume 10 - Issue 7 - July 2010
06/29/2010
In this interview, Dr. Kutalek talks with EP Lab Digest about his initial experience using Spectranetics’ new advanced laser lead extraction simulation system. Dr. Kutalek is the Director of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at Hahnemann...
In this interview, Dr. Kutalek talks with EP Lab Digest about his initial experience using Spectranetics’ new advanced laser lead extraction simulation system. Dr. Kutalek is the Director of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at Hahnemann...
In this interview, Dr....
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06/29/2010
Zachary J.M. Leshen, MD and Abraham G. Kocheril, MD, FHRS University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois
Zachary J.M. Leshen, MD and Abraham G...
Inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) is a clinical syndrome defined by an increase in sinus rate out of pro- portion to physiologic needs. It is an under-appreciated etiology of persistent tachycardia often misdiagnosed as anxiety or...
Inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) is a clinical syndrome defined by an increase in sinus rate out of pro- portion to physiologic needs. It is an under-appreciated etiology of persistent tachycardia often misdiagnosed as anxiety or...
Inappropriate sinus...
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Shiro Nakahara, MD and Roderick Tung, MD* UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, California
Shiro Nakahara, MD and Roderick Tung,...
Ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT) is one of the most challenging procedures in electrophysiology. Patients with scar-mediated reentrantVT have systolic dysfunction and frequently have multiple co-morbidities and end-organ...
Ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT) is one of the most challenging procedures in electrophysiology. Patients with scar-mediated reentrantVT have systolic dysfunction and frequently have multiple co-morbidities and end-organ...
Ablation of ventricular...
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06/28/2010
♥ July 15–17
Third Annual Cardiovascular Interventions: Head-to-Toe Meeting
Location: Napa Valley, California
Website: www.h2tmeeting.org/
♥ July 18–21
PICS-AICS 2010
Location: Sheraton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Website:...
♥ July 15–17
Third Annual Cardiovascular Interventions: Head-to-Toe Meeting
Location: Napa Valley, California
Website: www.h2tmeeting.org/
♥ July 18–21
PICS-AICS 2010
Location: Sheraton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Website:...
♥ July 15–17
Third Annual...
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EP Lab Digest
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Dr. Lynne Hung is a cardiac electrophysiologist with Mission Internal Medical Group in MissionViejo, California.
Tell us about your medical back- ground and how you came to work in the field of electrophysiology. What interested you about...
Dr. Lynne Hung is a cardiac electrophysiologist with Mission Internal Medical Group in MissionViejo, California.
Tell us about your medical back- ground and how you came to work in the field of electrophysiology. What interested you about...
Dr. Lynne Hung is a cardiac...
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Mikhael F. El-Chami, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine; David B. Delurgio, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine; and Angel R. Leon, MD, Professor of Medicine, Chief of Cardiology, Emory University Hospital Midtown
Division of Cardiology-Section of Electrophysiology Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, Georgia
Mikhael F. El-Chami, MD, Assistant Pr...
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves symptoms, quality of life and reduces hospitalization in patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV classification and left bundle branch block.1,2 Inaddition,implantation...
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves symptoms, quality of life and reduces hospitalization in patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV classification and left bundle branch block.1,2 Inaddition,implantation...
Cardiac resynchronization...
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Ophebia Pegues, RN, BSN, Electrophysiology Lab Manager Tupelo, Mississippi
Ophebia Pegues, RN, BSN, Electrophysi...
What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members? What is the mix of credentials at your lab? At North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC) we have two large EP rooms that are staffed with six RNs, three...
What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members? What is the mix of credentials at your lab? At North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC) we have two large EP rooms that are staffed with six RNs, three...
What is the size of your EP lab...
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Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS, Editor-in-Chief
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS, Ed...
Dear Readers,
“Can someone come turn off Mr. Smith’s pacemaker? He just found out he has terminal cancer.” Physicians and other health care providers who care for patients with pacemakers and defibrillators are occasionally asked...
Dear Readers,
“Can someone come turn off Mr. Smith’s pacemaker? He just found out he has terminal cancer.” Physicians and other health care providers who care for patients with pacemakers and defibrillators are occasionally asked...
Dear Readers,
“Can someone...
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Ian Law, MD, Jean Gingerich, RN, BSN and Nicholas Von Bergen, MD University of Iowa Children’s Hospital
Ian Law, MD, Jean Gingerich, RN, BSN ...
For those who have had the privilege of caring for children and young adults with life-threatening heart disease requiring ICD implantation, you are well aware that much of the emotional impact of the ICD occurs after device...
For those who have had the privilege of caring for children and young adults with life-threatening heart disease requiring ICD implantation, you are well aware that much of the emotional impact of the ICD occurs after device...
For those who have had the...
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Richard Chute, *Harun Otieno, MD, Frederick Turek, †G. Muqtada Chaudhry, MD, †David Martin, MD St. Jude Medical, Inc.; *Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya; †Project Pacer International,Waban, Massachusetts and Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts
Richard Chute, *Harun Otieno, MD, Fre...
Project Pacer International, a nonprofit Boston, Massachusetts based organization that is dedicated to the provision of cardiac therapy to indigent patients in the developing world, recently completed its first visit to Nairobi, Kenya....
Project Pacer International, a nonprofit Boston, Massachusetts based organization that is dedicated to the provision of cardiac therapy to indigent patients in the developing world, recently completed its first visit to Nairobi, Kenya....
Project Pacer International,...
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