Volume 15 - Issue 7 - July, 2015

Featured Article

Spotlight Interview

07/08/2015

Cher Lyons, RN, MSN, EP Lab Lead Nurse, and Ruben Filimonczuk, EMT-P, RCIS, Lead Tech, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Cher Lyons, RN, MSN, EP Lab Lead Nurs...

The UNC Health Care System is an academic medical center and anon-profit integrated health care system that furthers the teaching mission of the University of North Carolina and provides state-of-the-art care.

The UNC Health Care System is an...

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

Feature Interview

EP Perspectives: Interview With Heidi Dohse

07/08/2015

Interview by Jodie Elrod

Heidi Dohse is an endurance cyclist and pacemaker patient whose goal is to provide hope and inspiration to people with heart disease and their families.

Heidi Dohse is an endurance...

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

Cover Story

Developing a Protocol for Fluoroless AF Ablation

07/08/2015

David Weisman, MD, FHRS, Good Samaritan Medical Center, West Palm Beach, Florida

David Weisman, MD, FHRS, Good Samarit...

David Weisman, MD, FHRS, discusses his protocol for performing atrial fibrillation ablation.

David Weisman, MD,...

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

Department

Coding and Billing

Device Indications Gone Awry

07/08/2015

Jim Collins, CPC, CCC, President, CardiologyCoder.Com, Inc.

Jim Collins, CPC, CCC, President, Car...

In recent months, providers across the United States were prosecuted for implanting dual-chamber pacemakers when Medicare policy suggested that only a single-chamber device was indicated.

In recent months, providers...

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

Cryo Techniques

Initial Experience With the Arctic Front Advance® ST Cryoablation Catheter: Interview With Prof. Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD

07/08/2015

Interview by Jodie Elrod

EPLD speaks with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD, director of cardiology at Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg, Germany, about his first case using the Arctic Front Advance ST Cryoballoon (Medtronic).

EPLD speaks with Prof....

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

EP 101

EP Quiz

07/08/2015

Ulhas M. Pandurangi, MD, Chief - Cardiac Electrophysiology & Pacing, The Madras Medical Mission, Mogappair, Chennai, India

Ulhas M. Pandurangi, MD, Chief - Card...

Quiz provided by Ulhas M. Pandurangi, MD, Chief - Cardiac Electrophysiology & Pacing, The Madras Medical Mission, Mogappair, Chennai, India.

Quiz provided by Ulhas M....

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

Inside the EP Lab

Single-Center Experience: Electromagnetic Interference During ICD Generator Change With the PEAK PlasmaBlade

07/08/2015

Sinan Sarsam, MD, Ahmad Daraghmeh, MD, Christian Machado, MD, Providence Heart Institute, Southfield, Michigan

Sinan Sarsam, MD, Ahmad Daraghmeh, MD...

The authors prospectively studied the interaction of the PEAK PlasmaBlade with ICD function when used in cutting or coagulation within 6 inches from the location of the ICD generator in the chest in 11 consecutive patients.

The authors prospectively...

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

Feature

Case Report

Case Report: Thorascopic Delivery of the AtriClip to Prevent Strokes in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

07/08/2015

Patrick Murrah, MD,^1,2 Cullen Morris, MD,^1,2 Zac Doegge,³ Jonathan Murrow, MD, FACC,^1,2 Khan Pohlel, MD, FACC, FSCAI,^1,3 and Kent R. Nilsson, Jr., MD, FACC, FHRS^1,3

¹Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens, Georgia; ²Emory University Hospital Systems, Atlanta, Georgia; ³Georgia Regents University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, Athens, Georgia

Patrick Murrah, MD,1,2 Cullen Morris,...

The authors present a recent case of LAA exclusion using thorascopic delivery of the AtriClip.

The authors present a recent...

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

Review

EP Exam Review - Volumes 1 and 2: RCES and CEPS Basics

07/08/2015

Christine Chiu-Man, MSc, FHRS, RCES, CEPS, CCDS

Christine Chiu-Man, MSc, FHRS, RCES, ...

In this book review, Christine Chiu-Man, MSc, FHRS, RCES, CEPS, CCDS, describes the new second-edition set of EP Exam Review - Volume 1 Basics: RCES and CEPS Basics, and EP Exam Review - Volume 2: Diagnosis & Therapy for RCES and CEPS.

In this book review, Christine...

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

Challenges In The EP Lab

The Value of the Core Cath/EP Lab Staff: Narrowing the Gap Between Innovation and Expertise in Electrophysiology

07/08/2015

Cesar D. Garcia, BAS, RCIS, RT(R)(CI)(ARRT), Director of Cardiovascular Services and Neuro-Diagnostics, and Deborah Williams, RN, BSN, CEPS, Supervisor of Cath/EP, John C. Lincoln Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona

Cesar D. Garcia, BAS, RCIS, RT(R)(CI)...

The cath/EP lab at John C. Lincoln Medical Center has faced, and is continuously striving to overcome, many challenges to become clinically efficient and autonomous in the EP lab.

The cath/EP lab at John C....

07/08/2015

EP Lab Digest

Continuing Education

Education

New Online Professional Certificate in Cardiac Electrophysiology

07/08/2015

Letitia P. Esbenshade-Smith, MSEd., RCES, RCIS, CEPS, Coordinator, Cardiac Electrophysiology Program, Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Letitia P. Esbenshade-Smith, MSEd., R...

Beginning in August 2015, the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences will be offering an online Professional Certificate in Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Beginning in August 2015, the...

07/08/2015

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Volume 15 - Issue 7 - July, 2015