Volume 12 - Issue 7 - July 2012
06/27/2012
Boston Scientific Closes Cameron Health AcquisitionBoston Scientific Corporation has closed its acquisition of Cameron Health, Inc. of San Clemente, California, and, as a result, added to its product portfolio the world’s first and only...
Boston Scientific Closes Cameron Health AcquisitionBoston Scientific Corporation has closed its acquisition of Cameron Health, Inc. of San Clemente, California, and, as a result, added to its product portfolio the world’s first and only...
Boston Scientific Closes Cameron...
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EP Lab Digest
06/27/2012
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS
Editor-in-Chief, EP Lab Digest
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRSEdit...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has had a positive impact on the day-to-day practice of medicine — it has also had a major negative impact. Although designed to protect patient privacy and confidentiality in a...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has had a positive impact on the day-to-day practice of medicine — it has also had a major negative impact. Although designed to protect patient privacy and confidentiality in a...
The Health Insurance Portability...
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EP Lab Digest
06/27/2012
James L. Strickland, MD, FACC, FHRS
Program Medical Director
Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital
The Woodlands, Texas
James L. Strickland, MD, FACC, FHRSPr...
The ObjectiveIn the spring of 2011, I began discussions with Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital with the goal of instituting a complex cardiac arrhythmia program that would allow me to treat my patients with the same world-class level of...
The ObjectiveIn the spring of 2011, I began discussions with Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital with the goal of instituting a complex cardiac arrhythmia program that would allow me to treat my patients with the same world-class level of...
The ObjectiveIn the spring of...
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06/26/2012
Jonathan S. Steinberg, MD and Suneet Mittal, MD
The Arrhythmia Institute
Valley Health System
Columbia University College of
Physicians & Surgeons
New York, New York and Ridgewood, New Jersey
Jonathan S. Steinberg, MD and Suneet ...
Over the past two decades, The Valley Hospital, a 451-bed tertiary-care hospital located in Ridgewood, has gradually evolved into the leading provider of electrophysiology services in the state of New Jersey. Today, care is delivered in three...
Over the past two decades, The Valley Hospital, a 451-bed tertiary-care hospital located in Ridgewood, has gradually evolved into the leading provider of electrophysiology services in the state of New Jersey. Today, care is delivered in three...
Over the past two decades, The...
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EP Lab Digest
06/26/2012
Jennifer Baxter, BS, AS RT(R)
Nashville, Tennessee
Jennifer Baxter, BS, AS RT(R)Nashvill...
In February 2012, Centennial Medical Center opened its new heart and vascular center. This article provides an overview of the 200,000 square foot center.BackgroundTriStar Centennial Medical Center is the flagship hospital of Hospital...
In February 2012, Centennial Medical Center opened its new heart and vascular center. This article provides an overview of the 200,000 square foot center.BackgroundTriStar Centennial Medical Center is the flagship hospital of Hospital...
In February 2012, Centennial...
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EP Lab Digest
06/26/2012
Gabriel E. Soto, MD, PhD, FACC, FHRS
SoutheastHEALTH Heart Center
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Gabriel E. Soto, MD, PhD, FACC, FHRSS...
Case ReportA 79-year-old male with an ischemic cardiomyopathy presented with recurrent ventricular tachycardia (VT). He had a history of a prior posterior wall myocardial infarction, and had undergone two prior coronary artery bypass grafting...
Case ReportA 79-year-old male with an ischemic cardiomyopathy presented with recurrent ventricular tachycardia (VT). He had a history of a prior posterior wall myocardial infarction, and had undergone two prior coronary artery bypass grafting...
Case ReportA 79-year-old male...
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EP Lab Digest
06/26/2012
Jeffrey Hirsh, MD
University of Tennessee Medical Center
Knoxville, Tennessee
Jeffrey Hirsh, MDUniversity of Tennes...
Bayliss et al were the first to describe Twiddler’s syndrome.1 In the paper, the authors presented the main characteristics of Twiddler’s syndrome — namely, the twisting or coiling of the lead around the pacing device, followed by lead...
Bayliss et al were the first to describe Twiddler’s syndrome.1 In the paper, the authors presented the main characteristics of Twiddler’s syndrome — namely, the twisting or coiling of the lead around the pacing device, followed by lead...
Bayliss et al were the first to...
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EP Lab Digest
06/26/2012
Erin Kiesling, RN, CEPS, Clinical Lead, and Jessica Cooke, RN
The Vascular Center of Colorado, LLC
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Erin Kiesling, RN, CEPS, Clinical Lea...
The EP laboratories are a significant part of the Penrose-St. Francis Cardiovascular Center. Overall, the Vascular Center of Colorado (VCC) is approximately 20,000 square feet in size, and has five invasive procedure rooms, two of which are...
The EP laboratories are a significant part of the Penrose-St. Francis Cardiovascular Center. Overall, the Vascular Center of Colorado (VCC) is approximately 20,000 square feet in size, and has five invasive procedure rooms, two of which are...
The EP laboratories are a...
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EP Lab Digest
06/26/2012
Linda Moulton, RN, MS
Owner, Critical Care ED and C.C.E. Consulting
Faculty, Order and Disorder Electrophysiology Training Program
New Berlin, Illinois
Linda Moulton, RN, MSOwner, Critical ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects 2.2 million Americans currently, and it is projected that 16 million will have the disorder by 2050.1 The incidence of embolic stroke increases with the diagnosis of AF, and the embolic source is many times...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects 2.2 million Americans currently, and it is projected that 16 million will have the disorder by 2050.1 The incidence of embolic stroke increases with the diagnosis of AF, and the embolic source is many times...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects...
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EP Lab Digest
06/26/2012
Gregory L. Miller, RCIS, RCES, EP Lab Specialist
The Heart Hospital at Deaconess Gateway
Newburgh, Indiana
Written in collaboration with Rene’e Beasley Jones
Gregory L. Miller, RCIS, RCES, EP Lab...
One week after my ablation, I pushed a Toyota sports car more than two blocks when its battery went kaput.Sure, I was a little pooped, but that is to be expected when a 60-year-old man decides to push a car rather than call a tow truck.Acting...
One week after my ablation, I pushed a Toyota sports car more than two blocks when its battery went kaput.Sure, I was a little pooped, but that is to be expected when a 60-year-old man decides to push a car rather than call a tow truck.Acting...
One week after my ablation, I...
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EP Lab Digest
