Volume 16 - Issue 9 - September 2016
Spotlight Interview
09/08/2016
Steven Higgins, MD, Director, Weizhou Li, RN, Supervisor, and Nanette Souza, RN, Lead, Scripps EP Labs
Scripps Health
La Jolla, California
Steven Higgins, MD, Director, Weizhou...
Scripps Health is the leading provider of cardiac care in San Diego County. The Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute (SPCI), San Diego’s first comprehensive “heart hospital,” opened in 2015 on the campus of Scripps Memorial Hospital, La...
Scripps Health is the leading provider of cardiac care in San Diego County. The Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute (SPCI), San Diego’s first comprehensive “heart hospital,” opened in 2015 on the campus of Scripps Memorial Hospital, La...
Scripps Health is the leading...
09/08/2016
EP Lab Digest
Cover Story
09/07/2016
In this interview, we speak with cardiovascular patient researcher and advocate Debbe McCall. Debbe is the owner at Rowan Tree Perspectives Consulting, a patient representative to the FDA’s Cardiac Drug and Device Advisory Committee, Facebook...
In this interview, we speak with cardiovascular patient researcher and advocate Debbe McCall. Debbe is the owner at Rowan Tree Perspectives Consulting, a patient representative to the FDA’s Cardiac Drug and Device Advisory Committee, Facebook...
In this interview, we speak with...
09/07/2016
EP Lab Digest
Cover Story
09/07/2016
The Bob and Patty Edwards Arrhythmia Center at Overlake Medical in Bellevue, Washington, was the first on the West Coast and only the ninth in the nation to receive national accreditation by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. We...
The Bob and Patty Edwards Arrhythmia Center at Overlake Medical in Bellevue, Washington, was the first on the West Coast and only the ninth in the nation to receive national accreditation by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. We...
The Bob and Patty Edwards...
09/07/2016
EP Lab Digest
Feature
Review
09/08/2016
David Shavelle, MD1 and Rita Jermyn, MD2
1Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 2Division of Heart Failure, Department of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
David Shavelle, MD1 and Rita Jermyn, ...
The goal of the present review is to provide a summary of the implant procedure, discuss the required imaging steps, review procedural supplies, and present a series of case studies to illustrate clinically relevant issues that may arise...
The goal of the present review is to provide a summary of the implant procedure, discuss the required imaging steps, review procedural supplies, and present a series of case studies to illustrate clinically relevant issues that may arise...
The goal of the present review...
09/08/2016
EP Lab Digest
Perspectives
09/08/2016
Kevin Campbell, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor Of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of North Carolina
Kevin Campbell, MD, FACC
Assistant Pr...
There is an ongoing debate on the role that physicians should play in gun control and safety.
There is an ongoing debate on the role that physicians should play in gun control and safety.
There is an ongoing debate on...
09/08/2016
EP Lab Digest
Column
EP Tips & Techniques
09/08/2016
1Rod S. Passman, MD, MSCE, FACC, FHRS and 2Todd T. Tomson, MD
1Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine; Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Center for Atrial Fibrillation; Northwestern Memorial Hospital / Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; 2Assistant Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
1Rod S. Passman, MD, MSCE, FACC, FHRS...
As we move towards an era of personalized medicine, we should be questioning whether the way we practice today makes sense and continually ask ourselves how we can leverage the advances in remote monitoring within our own field to better care...
As we move towards an era of personalized medicine, we should be questioning whether the way we practice today makes sense and continually ask ourselves how we can leverage the advances in remote monitoring within our own field to better care...
As we move towards an era of...
09/08/2016
EP Lab Digest
Feature Interview
09/08/2016
In this feature interview, EP Lab Digest speaks with Dr. Daniel Friedman, an electrophysiologist with Manatee Memorial Hospital in Bradenton, Florida.
Tell us about your medical background. How long have you been practicing? Where have...
In this feature interview, EP Lab Digest speaks with Dr. Daniel Friedman, an electrophysiologist with Manatee Memorial Hospital in Bradenton, Florida.
Tell us about your medical background. How long have you been practicing? Where have...
In this feature interview, EP...
09/08/2016
EP Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
09/07/2016
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS, Editor-in-Chief
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS, Ed...
There has been much progress in the development of nonpharmacological therapeutic options for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) to prevent stroke focused on removal or exclusion of the left atrial appendage (LAA). For example, after many...
There has been much progress in the development of nonpharmacological therapeutic options for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) to prevent stroke focused on removal or exclusion of the left atrial appendage (LAA). For example, after many...
There has been much progress in...
09/07/2016
EP Lab Digest