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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.

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Healthcare today is largely woven together with electronic medical record (EMR) systems, which has led to the rapid ...

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By far readers had the most interest in the recall of Stryker's LifePak15 defibrillator-monitors. The FDA said the system might lock up after after a shock is delivered, prompting the company to come up with an emergency fix on its machines.
Feature | Dave Fornell, Editor, and A.J. Connell
March 1, 2019 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) maga ...
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Videos | EP Lab

This is a virtual heart with the same electrophysiology characteristics as the real patient being developed to help ...

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News | Pacemakers

February 20, 2019 — Medtronic is recalling its dual chamber implantable pulse generators (IPGs) due to the possibility ...

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News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

February 14, 2019 – Circle Cardiovascular Imaging and Galgo Medical recently announced an agreement for distribution and ...

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February 4, 2019 – Biosense Webster has enrolled and treated the first patient in its U.S. Investigational Device ...

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Rivaroxaban is among four new oral anticoagulants (NOAC) now recommended by atrial fibrillation guidelines over the old standard of warfarin.
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January 30, 2019 — Updated atrial fibrillation (AFib) treatment guidelines released this week now recommend new oral ...
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News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems

January 28, 2019 — Acutus Medical announced 12-month data from the UNCOVER-AF trial investigating the use of the AcQMap ...

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An example of multimodality image fusion with live angiography to enhance soft-tissue visualization during complex procedures. This example is from Siemen's new TrueFusion software released in 2018. Advances in angiography imaging.
Feature | Angiography | Dave Fornell, Editor

There are a few recent trends in X-ray angiography imaging systems that hospitals should be aware of if they are looking ...

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Seth Worley, M.D., senior consultant, section of cardiac electrophysiology, MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, developed tools and techniques to optimize transvenous left ventricular (LV) lead implantation, including the I-CRT approach. Here he holds the tools that he personally developed for left ventricular lead implantation to treat heart failure. Photo courtesy of MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
Feature | EP Lab | Matthew S. McKillop, M.D., FACC, FHRS, and Seth J. Worley, M.D.

Interventional cardiac resynchronization therapy (I-CRT) describes the repurposing of a set of tools and techniques ...

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January 21, 2019 — Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the TactiCath Contact Force ...

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Researchers raised the question whether an economic benefit should be assessed in FDA reviews. A large amount of the bill for atrial fibrillation catheter ablation procedures is the cost of the mapping and ablation catheters.
Feature | Cardiovascular Business | Philip Jacobs, DPhil, Ilke Akpinar, M.D., Thanh Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D., Rupinder Sandhu, M.D., and Lars Thording Ph.D.

In an age when everything in medicine is now looked at though a cost vs. benefit analysis and U.S. government healthcare ...

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The startup company Genetesis introduced a new cardiac imaging modalityit calls magnetocardiography. The scanner creates images from the biomagnetic activity of the heart, using the polarization and depolarization of the heart during the cardiac cycle. This was at AHA.18, AHA 2018 - the American Heart Association annual meeting
Feature | AHA | Dave Fornell, Editor

Here are a few of the takeaways from the clinical studies presented and new technology shown on the exhibit floor at the ...

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An implanted ICD showing its three venous leads. These multiple CRT leads can cause issues when they need to be replaced and are abandoned with new leads put over them in the SVC, which may require lead extraction.
Feature | EP Lab | Dave Fornell, Editor

To extract or abandon broken or infected implantable, venous electrophysiology (EP) device leads has been a debate for ...

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The 2018 Most Popular Cardiology Topics - FDA approval of Andexxa, the first antidote indicated for patients treated with rivaroxaban (Xarelto) and apixaban (Eliquis), and new pacemaker technologies.
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January 4, 2018 — Here is the top cardiology content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) website from ...

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