Channelopathies
Channelopathies Iwona Cygankiewicz Wojciech Zareba INTRODUCTION Last decades witnessed a significant progress in our understanding of electrophysiology of myocardial cell and in appreciation of the role cardiac ion channels play…
Antiarrhythmic Medications
Antiarrhythmic Medications Julia Cadrin-Tourigny Katia Dyrda Paul Khairy Laurent Macle StanleY Nattel Mario Talajic Peter G. Guerra Bernard Thibault Marc Dubuc Lena Rivard Blandine Mondesert Denis Roy The ultimate purpose…
Approach to the Patient with Wide Complex Tachycardia
Approach to the Patient with Wide Complex Tachycardia John M. Miller Deepak Bhakta Gopi Dandamudi Rahul Jain Vikas Kalra INTRODUCTION Arriving at the correct diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia (WCT)…
Lead Management and Extraction
Lead Management and Extraction Advay G. Bhatt Over the previous 20 years, there was a dramatic increase in the rate of cardiac implantable electrophysiologic devices (CIEDs) utilization initially due to…
Device Interrogations and Utilization of Diagnostic Data
Device Interrogations and Utilization of Diagnostic Data Charles J. Love INTRODUCTION Implantable cardiac rhythm devices have progressed from fixed function, fixed rate, nonprogrammable pacemakers, to the current generation of incredibly…
Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Monitoring
Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Monitoring Niraj Varma Suneet Mittal Ambulatory external ECG (AECG) monitoring extends ECG recording beyond the bedside 10-second 12-lead resting ECG to prolonged periods of up to several weeks…
Indications for Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices
Indications for Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices Ricardo Cardona-Guarache Gautham Kalahasty Kenneth A. Ellenbogen Understanding the indications for device therapy for cardiac arrhythmias should be one of the primary goals of…
Principles of Mapping and Ablation
Principles of Mapping and Ablation Yuliya Krokhaleva Noel G. Boyle Kalyanam Shivkumar Eric Buch INTRODUCTION Catheter ablation and antiarrhythmic medications are the two modalities currently used for the treatment of…
Electrophysiologic Testing: Indications and Limitations
Electrophysiologic Testing: Indications and Limitations Aman Chugh Fred Morady Electrophysiologic (EP) testing has evolved substantially from its origins in the 1970s when it was primarily a diagnostic tool for elucidating…
Electrophysiology Equipment
Electrophysiology Equipment Mark W. Preminger Cardiac electrophysiology is based upon the recording of electrical potentials from within the heart. More specifically, these potentials are recorded from electrode pairs on catheters…
