Mapping/Ablation

EP Lab Digest speaks with Donna Wagner, BSN, MS, RN, and Administrator of Cardiovascular and Critical Care Services at Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Florida.

Twenty-five years ago, cardiac electrophysiologists (EPs) who performed catheter ablation took care of very different types of patients than they do today. The model then was to see and evaluate patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome,...

In this feature interview, EP Lab Digest speaks with Dr. Roger A. Winkle about his experience using the new Advisor™ HD Grid Mapping Catheter, Sensor Enabled™ (Abbott) at Silicon Valley Cardiology / Sutter Health in East Palo Alto,...

We present a case of a patient with VT, HIT, and inferior pericardial adhesions that was successfully ablated epicardially despite adhesions in the inferior pericardial space.

Jeffrey L. Williams, MD, MS, FACC, FHRS, CPE is the Co-Director of the Heart Rhythm Center and Assistant Quality and Medical Informatics Officer at Lakeland Regional Health System in Florida.

On May 10, Dr. Doug Packer presented the results of the long-awaited CABANA trial at Heart Rhythm 2018. This trial compared catheter ablation to drugs for patients with new-onset or untreated atrial fibrillation (AF). Patients could have...

I-CRT is a process, an entirely different approach to a time-tested intervention. Not only does it facilitate greater accuracy of LV lead placement, I-CRT imbues a mindset to examine each step from a problem-solving perspective. That is,...

Kathleen J. Morris, MS, RD, CNSC and Roschelle Heuberger, PhD, RD provide a review examining the effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on postoperative atrial fibrillation.