Atrial Fibrillation

Device Clinic Generator ERI/RRT/Replacement Process

The document outlines the process for managing device generator replacements, focusing on cases with elective replacement indicator (ERI) or recommended replacement time (RRT) alerts. It includes protocols for echocardiograms based…

Atrial Fibrillation Center of Excellence: An Operational Playbook

AF Clinic/Center of Excellence: Authored by Elliott Antman, MD, the Atrial Fibrillation Center of Excellence: An Operational Playbook, offers a comprehensive and practical guide to help healthcare professionals implement AF CoEs at their institutions. The Playbook includes step-by-step guidance for everything from defining an AF CoE’s scope and structure to adopting the latest treatment protocols and patient care . . .

Health Facts for You: Patient Information Sheets

Education – Patient/Caregiver: The “Health Facts for You: patient information sheets cover the following topics:

TAVR and Pacemaker: Why Do Some People Get Both?

Education – Clinical: This Foundational EP educational video will review the TAVR procedure to replace the aortic valve and why some people who undergo this procedure end up needing a pacemaker. 

Pace Mapping: Principles and Pitfalls

Education – Clinical: This Foundational EP educational video will review the principles and pitfalls of pace mapping.

Activation Mapping: How it Works and How it Can Go Wrong

Education – Clinical: This Foundational EP educational video will review Activation Mapping: How it Works and How it Can Go Wrong. Special attention will be given to basic concepts, pitfalls, and windowing. Additional videos created by Joshua M. Cooper, MD, FACC, FHRS include:

Entrainment Basics and the Post-Pacing Interval

Education – Clinical: This Foundational EP educational video will review the basics of entrainment pacing during reentrant arrhythmias and the significance of the post-pacing interval. Attention will be paid to the specific circumstances that allow the myocardial reentry to occur, and a review of what happens when one performs pacing maneuvers and records electrograms during tachycardia. By starting and stopping pacing at different sites and analyzing what happens right after after pacing is stopped, the size and location of a reentry circuit can be determined. Additional videos created by Joshua M. Cooper, MD, FACC, FHRS include:

Atrial Flutter: Diagnosis and Ablation

Education – Clinical: This Foundational EP education video will cover the diagnosis and catheter ablation of atrial flutter. Additional videos created by Joshua M. Cooper, MD, FACC, FHRS include:

Diagnosis of SVT in the EP Lab

Education – Clinical: This Foundational EP education video will cover the Diagnosis of SVT in the EP Lab usually for the purpose of catheter ablation. Additional videos created by Joshua M. Cooper, MD, FACC, FHRS include:

Introduction to Intracardiac Electrograms

Education – Clinical: In this Foundational EP education video, learn the importance of understanding in detail how unipolar and bipolar signals are recorded, and how they should be interpreted in order to maximize the safety and success of EP studies in catheter ablation procedures. Additional videos created by Joshua M. Cooper, MD, FACC, FHRS include: