Volume 10 - Issue 5 - May 2010
05/02/2010
AngelMed Guardian System Wins Medical Design Excellence Award
Angel Medical Systems announced that the AngelMed Guardian System has received a 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award. The Guardian is an implantable cardiac monitoring and...
AngelMed Guardian System Wins Medical Design Excellence Award
Angel Medical Systems announced that the AngelMed Guardian System has received a 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award. The Guardian is an implantable cardiac monitoring and...
AngelMed Guardian System Wins...
05/02/2010
EP Lab Digest
05/02/2010
Lindsay Butler Carrillo
Public Relations Specialist
Banner Heart Hospital
Lindsay Butler Carrillo
Public Relati...
Banner Heart Hospital recently underwent a $30 million expansion, the fifth in their 10-year history. Read more about their new facilities here.
In this latest expansion, Banner Heart Hospital brought its procedural capacity to two EP labs,...
Banner Heart Hospital recently underwent a $30 million expansion, the fifth in their 10-year history. Read more about their new facilities here.
In this latest expansion, Banner Heart Hospital brought its procedural capacity to two EP labs,...
Banner Heart Hospital recently...
05/02/2010
EP Lab Digest
05/02/2010
Kathryn A. Glatter, MD
Woodland Clinic
Woodland, California
Kathryn A. Glatter, MD
Woodland Clini...
Brugada syndrome is a relatively rare genetic disease that can lead to ventricular arrhythmias, syncope, or sudden cardiac death. It was first described in 1992 as a clinical entity.1 Since that time, specific diagnostic criteria for the...
Brugada syndrome is a relatively rare genetic disease that can lead to ventricular arrhythmias, syncope, or sudden cardiac death. It was first described in 1992 as a clinical entity.1 Since that time, specific diagnostic criteria for the...
Brugada syndrome is a relatively...
05/02/2010
EP Lab Digest
05/02/2010
James Burns, Vice President, Corazon, Inc. and Elizabeth Wertz Evans, Consultant, Corazon, Inc.
James Burns, Vice President, Corazon,...
It is often said that healthcare is between 10 and 15 years behind in adopting best business practices. This characteristic is quite prevalent in the area of new business or service development. A typical business may spend hours in planning...
It is often said that healthcare is between 10 and 15 years behind in adopting best business practices. This characteristic is quite prevalent in the area of new business or service development. A typical business may spend hours in planning...
It is often said that healthcare...
05/02/2010
EP Lab Digest
05/02/2010
Gregory K. Feld, MD, Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Program; Ulrika Birgersdotter Green, MD, Director of the Pacemaker/ICD Clinic; Navinder Sawhney, MD, and Robert Cass, RN
Electrophysiology Program, University of San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center
San Diego, California
Gregory K. Feld, MD, Director of the ...
The implementation of electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records (EHR) systems in hospitals and medical offices has become a major priority in the last few years. This is due in part to governmental mandates that will...
The implementation of electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records (EHR) systems in hospitals and medical offices has become a major priority in the last few years. This is due in part to governmental mandates that will...
The implementation of electronic...
05/02/2010
EP Lab Digest
05/02/2010
I am taking the IBHRE CEPS exam instead as I consider it a much more meaningful credential. If I fail to pass the CEPS, I probably will take the RCES exam!
— Paul Haidri, RN, BSN
I have taken and passed the RCES exam and both of the IBHRE...
I am taking the IBHRE CEPS exam instead as I consider it a much more meaningful credential. If I fail to pass the CEPS, I probably will take the RCES exam!
— Paul Haidri, RN, BSN
I have taken and passed the RCES exam and both of the IBHRE...
I am taking the IBHRE CEPS exam...
05/02/2010
EP Lab Digest
05/02/2010
Ian H. Law, MD
Associate Professor
University of Iowa Children’s Hospital
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City, Iowa
Ian H. Law, MD
Associate Professor
Un...
In preparation for our fourth medical relief trip to the Yucatan Peninsula, we thought we had everything figured out — what could possibly go wrong?
More than an hour and a half had passed since we were asked to take a seat in the customs...
In preparation for our fourth medical relief trip to the Yucatan Peninsula, we thought we had everything figured out — what could possibly go wrong?
More than an hour and a half had passed since we were asked to take a seat in the customs...
In preparation for our fourth...
05/02/2010
EP Lab Digest
05/02/2010
Paul Konowitz, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School, head and neck surgeon and otolaryngologist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Medical Director of HealthAngle, Inc.; and Ken Wilan, president of HealthAngle, Brookline, Massachusetts, and journalist for Nature, Cell, Scientific American, The Boston Globe and The Scientist
Paul Konowitz, MD, Assistant Clinical...
Every patient has a story to tell, and here’s why sharing that story is so important: The act of writing decreases patient stress around procedures, improves provider-patient communications and provides unique data to healthcare providers to...
Every patient has a story to tell, and here’s why sharing that story is so important: The act of writing decreases patient stress around procedures, improves provider-patient communications and provides unique data to healthcare providers to...
Every patient has a story to...
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EP Lab Digest
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Todd J. Cohen, MD, Vatsal Inamdar, MD, Wilbur Asheld*, and Gerard Doorty, RN, Division of Cardiology, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, and *New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY
Todd J. Cohen, MD, Vatsal Inamdar, MD...
Reprinted with permission from J Invasive Cardiology 2010;22:247–250.
Patients who are entirely dependent on ventricular pacing are typically at the mercy of a single ventricular lead and pacemaker output in order to provide physiologic...
Reprinted with permission from J Invasive Cardiology 2010;22:247–250.
Patients who are entirely dependent on ventricular pacing are typically at the mercy of a single ventricular lead and pacemaker output in order to provide physiologic...
Reprinted with permission from J...
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EP Lab Digest
05/02/2010
Amin Al-Ahmad, MD, FHRS, FACC, Associate Director of the Stanford Arrhythmia Service and Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory
Stanford, California
Amin Al-Ahmad, MD, FHRS, FACC, Associ...
What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members? What is the mix of credentials at your lab?
We currently have two dedicated rooms for EP, and we also have a third room that is shared with another service that can be used...
What is the size of your EP lab facility and number of staff members? What is the mix of credentials at your lab?
We currently have two dedicated rooms for EP, and we also have a third room that is shared with another service that can be used...
What is the size of your EP lab...
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EP Lab Digest
