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EP Lab
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for cardiac electrophysiology (EP) systems, techniques and devices using in EP labs. This includes implantable EP devices, pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), cardiac resychronization therapy (CRT), ablation technologies, left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion, atrial fibrilation (AF) and Holter monitors.
![Medicare, CMS, calls for cancelling or postponing all elective or non-essential medical procedures, test and surgeries due to COVID-19. #COVID19 #SARcov2 #coronavirus #cardiology](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Cath%20Lab%20and%20COVID-19%20LOS-RES%20Image%20copy_0.jpg?itok=mBTkNEkd)
March 20, 2020 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced March 18, 2020, that all elective ...
An interview with Ehtisham Mahmud, M.D., FSCAI, chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, executive director of ...
When the patients of Michael Boler, M.D. need cardiac monitoring, the Holter monitor is no longer his first choice. “The ...
![Philips Healthcare's new Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) technology creates real-time 3-D imaging of anatomy and devices inside the body using light, rather than X-rays. FORS uses light traveling through hair-thin fiber optics inside special FORS enabled catheter and guidewires.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Philips_New_FORS_imaging%20technology%203%20copy.jpg?itok=nFZ7U1uZ)
Philips is working on a prototype cath lab angiographic imaging system that might be able to replace the current X-ray ...
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Apple created a stir when it announced in 2018 that its Apple Watch Series 4 was the first consumer health and fitness ...
![The European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) electrophysiology (EP) annual meeting cancelled due to coronavirus. #COVID19 #coronavirus #2019nCoV](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/EHRA_Cancelled_COVID-19.jpg?itok=mXC-35gV)
March 10, 2020 — Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has claimed another large cardiology meeting, the European Heart Rhythm ...
Apple created a stir when it announced in 2018 that its Apple Watch Series 4 was the first consumer health and fitness ...
![Valentina Kutyifa, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y., is doing research in the BIO-LIBRA Study to determine it ICD or CRT-D devices work better in men or women with heart failure often present with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/BIO_LIBRA_Dr_.Valentina_Kutyifa_JPG.jpg?itok=YhzDhroK)
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for women in North America, and women with heart failure often ...
March 5, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Acutus Medical SuperMap, an addition to its ...
![Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the FDA clearance of the Micra AV, the world’s smallest pacemaker with atrioventricular (AV) synchrony, topped the news analytics in February 2020 on DAIC magazine. COVID-19 virus image courtesy of CDC.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Top%20content%20Feb%202020%20DAIC.jpg?itok=2iWfeUPx)
March 2, 2020 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) maga ...
Washington Health System (WHS) provides healthcare services at more than 40 offsite locations across three counties in ...
Charles D. Resor, M.D., MSc, assistant director, cardiac catheterization lab, Tufts Medical Center and assistant ...
![Some of the new devices technologies to treat heart failure that are either in clinical trials or were recently cleared by the U.S. FDA. #heartfailure](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Heart_Failure_Device_technology_2020_compliation.jpg?itok=kUZetEad)
There are several new tools being added to the clinical armamentarium in the fight against heart failure (HF). These ...
![Several wearable, less-obtrusive ECG monitors fhave been cleared by the FDA for longer wear. This example is Cardiac Insight’s Cardea SOLO device.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Woman3_withpatch_website.jpg?itok=cJFfyRN9)
When the patients of Michael Boler, M.D. need cardiac monitoring, the Holter monitor is no longer his first choice. “The ...
Apple created a stir when it announced in 2018 that its Apple Watch Series 4 was the first consumer health and fitness ...
Andrew Weintraub, M.D., FACC, associate director, of the Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Center, medical director ...
This video illustrates how the Micra AV leadless pacemaker is delivered via catheter and enables atrioventricular (AV) ...
February 13, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approval of Micra AV, the world’s smallest pacemaker ...