Workflows
Education – Clinical: Provider education presentation including AFib and anticoagulation overview, rate control care pathway, suggested AFib patient education, and ED algorithm.
Read MoreWorkflows: Background, rationale, and suggested training and requirements for the proposal of EP APP privileges to perform ECV. Includes protocol and references.
Read MoreJournal Articles: In this study the authors hypothesized that “Lean management” within a dedicated ablation protocol could standardize the pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) procedure and improve quality.
Read MoreEducation – Clinical: Workflow for deep analgesic sedation in the EPU laboratory. Includes medications, monitoring, and ACT control.
Read MoreCare Pathways/CDS: Care pathway for clinicians to use when suspecting atrio-esophageal fistula in patients.
Read MoreCare Pathways/CDS: Clinical pathway for suspected atrial fibrillation.
Read MoreCare Pathways/CDS: Care pathway for management of confirmed AFib in patients. Includes information about underlying causes, treatment options, reducing stroke risk, and more.
Read MoreBest Practices: Best Practices for Sleep and Weight Referrals, including chart and visual care pathway.
Read MoreJournal Articles: Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation has evolved enormously thanks to rapid improvement of modern mapping technologies, progress in catheter development and current possibilities for reduction of radiation exposure. Pulmonary vein isolation is thereby the cornerstone in this interventional treatment. Increased precision of catheter localization by modern three-dimensional mapping systems, faster and better processing of local electrograms and their immediate color-based visualization make it possible to treat even challenging arrhythmias very effectively. The commonly used three-dimensional mapping systems CARTO 3 (Biosense Webster, Irvine, Ca.) and Ensite Precision (St. Jude Medical, St. Paul, Min) differ in construction and principles of the underlying mapping technology. In this review article, we aim to emphasize the most important aspects of possibilities that make both systems so valuable for interventional treatment of atrial fibrillation. We present a modern workflow, that unites three-dimensional LA mapping with collecting relevant local information, image integration for refining the map and beneficial use of contact force based ablation approach.
Read MoreWorkflows: A visual workflow to guide AF clinics in same day CT/transesophageal cardiogram, and CT/direct current cardioversion procedures.
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