Data from the PROMET and RELEASE studies provide important new insights into the safety and efficacy of rotational transvenous lead extraction (TLE), Christoph Starck...
Findings of the EAST-AFNET 4 trial, examining the benefit of early rhythm control therapy in patients with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF), should influence...
The use of high-power, short duration ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) has the potential to speed up procedural times and increase the number of...
The pandemic saw a boom in the use of remote technologies and telehealth for patient monitoring and management, including for patients with heart failure—and...
The advent of pulsed field ablation (PFA) will revolutionise the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), Tom de Potter (Aalst, Belgium) tells Cardiac Rhythm News,...
Fred Kusumoto (Jacksonville, USA), current president of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), sits down with Cardiac Rhythm News to discuss the upcoming Heart Rhythm...
Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk (Aarhus, Denmark) speaks to Cardiovascular News about a propensity score-matched study which examined left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) compared with novel...
Jennifer Silva (St Louis, USA) talks to BLearning Cardio at SIR 2019 (Society of Interventional Radiology; 23–28 March; Austin, USA) about why physicians should...
Hugh Calkins (Baltimore, USA) tells BLearning Cardio at Venice Arrhythmias 2019 (3–5 October; Venice, Italy) that the 2019 HRS consensus document is extremely important because it defines a new disease...
Antonio Raviele (Venice, Italy), the president of Venice Arrhythmias 2019 (3–5 October; Venice, Italy), talks to BLearning Cardio about some of the current challenges in atrial fibrillation (AF)...
A new study from New Zealand, just published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, has revealed that automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in the community...
Roderick Tung (Chicago, USA) talks to BLearning Cardio about the results of the His-SYNC trial which he presented at HRS 2019.
The His-SYNC trial set out to...
Christoph Starck (Berlin, Germany) and Saumya Sharma (Houston, USA) discuss the benefits of using rotational transvenous lead extraction (TLE) tools. Starck and Sharma note...
Valentina Kutyifa (Rochester, USA) discusses the late-breaking study findings looking at data from the family of MADIT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator) trials.
Kutyifa told Cardiac Rhythm...
Ante Anic (Split, Croatia) discusses the first in-human trial (CRYO-FIM) looking at a novel cryoballoon ablation system for pulmonary vein isolation at HRS 2019...
Johannes Brachmann (Coburg, Germany) speaks to Cardiac Rhythm News at HRS 2019 about the REAFFIRM trial, which compared the use of rotor ablation versus...
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Sleep apnoea is a major chronic disease that can have cardiovascular consequences. Around 40–50% of people with atrial...
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The Confirm Rx implantable cardiac monitor (ICM) is the world’s first and only insertable cardiac monitor that combines...
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AF is a growing epidemic affecting 33.5 million people today.1 Up to 91% of AF patients have co-morbidities.2 Among...
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The RESPOND-CRT clinical trial is a relevant and significant study in the field of cardiac resynchronisation therapy. It...
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Over the past two decades there have been several optimisation strategies, whether they are echo-guided or EKG-guided, aimed...
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Watch the recent webinar on persistent Atrial Fibrillation (AF) ablation with Prof. Schilling (St. Barts, London), Prof. de...
With the aim to help tackling the limitations of detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) across the globe with a simple pulse check and to raise...
Martin Burke (CorVita Science Foundation, Chicago, USA) presents the preclinical acute and chronic performance of the combined implant of a leadless anti-tachycardia pacemaker and...
Dhiraj Gupta (Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK) discusses NHS England's commissioning through evaluation for left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO). This programme is...
Cardiac Rhythm News speaks to Richard Schilling (St Bartholomews & The Royal London Hospital, London, UK), president-elect of BHRS (2017‒2019), about his objectives during...
A first-of-its-kind study has found that male veteran athletes have a significantly higher prevalence of arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, sinus pauses,...
Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and University of Bonn in Germany have found that beams of light could potentially replace electric shocks to terminate ventricular...
Karl-Heinz Kuck, Asklepios Klinik St Georg, Hamburg, Germany, speaks at ACC 2016 about the FIRE AND ICE trial results which have shown that cryoballoon...
CardioMEMS (St Jude Medical), FDA approved in 2014, is a minimally invasive device used to measure the pulmonary artery pressures and heart rates of...
This video from the Organization for Occupational Radiation Safety in Interventional Fluoroscopy (ORSIF) tells the story of one of the world’s most prominent cardiovascular surgeons, Edward...
This film stars cardiologist John C Grammer, who shows his novel way of demonstrating various heart rhythms and cardiac arrhythmias.
https://youtu.be/TJR2AfxVHsM
Jared Bunch (Murray, USA) speaks, at AHA 2014, about a new study, which shows how AF patients treated with a combination of antiplatelet and...
Richard Schilling (professor of Cardiology and Electrophysiology, Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London, UK) speaks about the use of robotic...
Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, director, Center for Excellence in AF and Complex Arrhythmias, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA, explores the effects of yoga...
John D Day, president-elect of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and programme chair HRS Scientific Sessions 2014, talks to Cardiac Rhythm News about the...
Richard Bernstein, professor of neurology in the Davee Department of Neurology at Northwestern University, director of the Stroke Program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in...
Douglas Packer (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA) shares with Cardiac Rhythm News information on the design and rationale of the CABANA (Catheter ablation versus antiarrhythmic drug...
Darryl Wells of the Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute, Seattle, USA, talks about how safe the ablation procedure is and how important getting patients...
Christophe Leclercq, Rennes, France, chairperson of two European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2013 sessions in cardiac resynchronisation therapy, speaks about this year’s congress highlights...
Patrick Ellinor, director Cardiac Step Down Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital Corrigan Minehan Heart Centre (Boston, USA) discusses different treatment options to prevent stroke in...
Jagmeet Singh, director of the Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center, USA, discusses a clinical trial which compared multidisciplinary...
Richard Hongo, cardiac electrophysiologist, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, USA, explains how ablation of ventricular tachycardias works.
https://youtu.be/Y-YzXbfcAas
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), commonly mistaken for a heart attack, is one of the leading causes of death in the United States each year,...
The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Patient Education DVD is the Society’s first-ever educational DVD developed as a resource specifically for patients with SCA and part...
Royal Philips Electronics has launched the Save Lives website (www.SaveLives.net), an online campaign to inform people about sudden cardiac arrest and to empower them...
Husam Balkhy, director Center for Minimally Invasive Cardiac and Robotic Surgery, The Wisconsin Heart Hospital, USA, performs a totally endoscopic robotic RF ablation procedure...
Thomas Moyer, Mayo Clinic, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, describes the four basic categories of patients as identified through a sensitive genotype test,...
Carlo Pappone, The San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy, performs atrial fibrillation ablation with Stereotaxis remote magnetic navigation system and CARTO RMT non fluoroscopic mapping...
