
About this episode
HRS meeting presentations: conduction system pacing, AF in the ED, a possible new treatment for vagal bradycardia, and women in EP are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.
This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.
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I – HRS Comments
II – Conduction System Pacing
Conduction System Disease Recast as Preventive Therapy Target
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973488
• Rescue Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing in Coronary Venous Lead Failure or Non-response to Biventricular Pacing: Results From International LBBAP Collaborative Study Group
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.04.024
• Clinical Outcomes Of Conduction System Pacing Compared To Biventricular Pacing In Patients Requiring Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.04.023
III – Emergency Triage of AF
Early Arrhythmia-Specialist Consult, Ordered in the ER, a Boon to AF Outcomes: ER2EP Study
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973250
• ClinicalTrials.gov Reference
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04476524
• George Bernard Shaw Reference:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2623628
IV – Cardioneural Ablation
Can Ablation Abolish Vasovagal Syncope? Early Series Promising
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973346
V – Women in EP
Why Are Numbers of Women, Minorities So Low in Cardiac EP?
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/972968
• Temporal and geographical trends in women operators of electrophysiology procedures in the United States
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.02.015
• Quantification of Female and Underrepresented Minority Applicants to Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacep.2022.04.001
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