Volume 12 - Issue 9 - September 2012
08/28/2012
Francisco J. Pérez Gil, MD
Centro Cardiovascular Hospital San Lucas
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Francisco J. Pérez Gil, MDCentro Car...
In an era of shrinking reimbursements from insurance companies and increasing costs, it’s becoming more important than ever to find innovative solutions to provide optimal patient care and remain profitable. In my experience as a cardiac...
In an era of shrinking reimbursements from insurance companies and increasing costs, it’s becoming more important than ever to find innovative solutions to provide optimal patient care and remain profitable. In my experience as a cardiac...
In an era of shrinking...
08/28/2012
EP Lab Digest
08/28/2012
Mellanie True Hills, Speaker and CEO, StopAfib.org
Decatur, Texas
Mellanie True Hills, Speaker and CEO,...
For some healthcare professionals, treating afib can be a little like figuring out a jigsaw puzzle. Pieces here and there provide clues about the overall picture, but seeing the whole picture and being able to assemble a treatment regimen is...
For some healthcare professionals, treating afib can be a little like figuring out a jigsaw puzzle. Pieces here and there provide clues about the overall picture, but seeing the whole picture and being able to assemble a treatment regimen is...
For some healthcare...
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EP Lab Digest
08/28/2012
In this feature interview we speak with members of the ICD patient support group known as “The Defibril-ladies” from North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) at Salem Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts. Debra M. Halligan, RN, BSN, CCDS is the Clinical...
In this feature interview we speak with members of the ICD patient support group known as “The Defibril-ladies” from North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) at Salem Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts. Debra M. Halligan, RN, BSN, CCDS is the Clinical...
In this feature interview we...
08/28/2012
EP Lab Digest
08/28/2012
Matthew P. Latacha, MD, FACC, FHRS
Omaha, Nebraska
Matthew P. Latacha, MD, FACC, FHRSOma...
In recent years, catheter ablation has become a preferred strategy for drug-refractory paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and for select patients with persistent atrial fibrillation.1 Though the field has rapidly advanced, the procedure is still...
In recent years, catheter ablation has become a preferred strategy for drug-refractory paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and for select patients with persistent atrial fibrillation.1 Though the field has rapidly advanced, the procedure is still...
In recent years, catheter...
08/28/2012
EP Lab Digest
08/28/2012
Rahul N. Doshi, MD, FACC, FHRS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of California, Irvine
Orange, California
Rahul N. Doshi, MD, FACC, FHRSAssista...
Hybrid ORs were born out of a need for vascular surgeons to be able to do minimally invasive and invasive surgical procedures utilizing advanced X-ray techniques. Accordingly, their most widespread use is for vascular procedures. However, as...
Hybrid ORs were born out of a need for vascular surgeons to be able to do minimally invasive and invasive surgical procedures utilizing advanced X-ray techniques. Accordingly, their most widespread use is for vascular procedures. However, as...
Hybrid ORs were born out of a...
08/28/2012
EP Lab Digest
08/27/2012
Jesselyn Cacho, BSN; Brad Knight, MD; Nicole Cook, BSN
Chicago, IL
Jesselyn Cacho, BSN; Brad Knight, MD;...
As one of the country’s premier academic medical center hospitals, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) serves as the primary teaching hospital for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The...
As one of the country’s premier academic medical center hospitals, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) serves as the primary teaching hospital for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The...
As one of the country’s premier...
08/27/2012
EP Lab Digest
08/27/2012
Kevin R. Campbell, MD, FACC
Kevin R. Campbell, MD, FACC
The landscape of the business of medicine is changing drastically. Stand-alone private practices (particularly in cardiology and other specialties) are becoming extinct dinosaurs. Instead, the new trend has become integration — groups are...
The landscape of the business of medicine is changing drastically. Stand-alone private practices (particularly in cardiology and other specialties) are becoming extinct dinosaurs. Instead, the new trend has become integration — groups are...
The landscape of the business of...
08/27/2012
EP Lab Digest
08/27/2012
Pasquale Santangeli, MD; Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, FHRS;
J. David Burkhardt, MD; Rodney Horton, MD; Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David’s Medical Center
Austin, Texas
Pasquale Santangeli, MD; Luigi Di Bia...
IntroductionPatients with atrial fibrillation (AF) face an increased risk of systemic thromboembolism.1 The left atrial appendage (LAA), a remnant of the primordial left atrium, represents the major source of cardiac thrombus formation...
IntroductionPatients with atrial fibrillation (AF) face an increased risk of systemic thromboembolism.1 The left atrial appendage (LAA), a remnant of the primordial left atrium, represents the major source of cardiac thrombus formation...
IntroductionPatients with atrial...
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