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- Sunday, February 7, 2010 - 23:0010th International Dead Sea Symposium (IDSS) on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Device Therapyhttp://www.paragon-conventions.net/arrhythmia2010
- Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 23:00Order and Disorder in the Cardiac Rhythm-Beyond the Basicshttp://www.orderanddisorder.com
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In this article, the authors provide an updated overview on successful lead extraction methods for pacemaker and defibrillator cases.
Permanent pacemakers and automatic internal cardioverter defibrillators (AICDs) have been improving and saving lives for over 50 years.1 Unfortunately, in rare cases these devices can pose potential harm to a patient, thus indicating removal. Removal or replacement of the generator only does not pose as much risk as lead extraction. Abandoning or disabling malfunctioning leads will suffice in the majority of patients who no longer have an indication or desire for continued therapy. However, lead extraction is indicated when malfunction results in potential harm, when there is difficulty clearing a blood stream infection, when venous stenosis has ensued, or when procedures, normally contraindicated with implanted devices, are necessary.2
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EP Year in Review: 2009
J. David Burkhardt, MD, FACC and Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FHRS, Executive Medical Director
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute
Austin, Texas
In this special feature, J. David Burkhardt, MD, FACC and Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FHRS discuss electrophysiology advancements from the past year.
The year 2009 has yielded some interesting developments in the field of cardiac electrophysiology. Many of the advances reported in the last decade in atrial fibrillation have focused on ablative therapy.
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Feature
Therapeutic Hypothermia Following Cardiac Arrest
Author: Deborah Walsh, MS, RN and Dana P. Edelson, MD, MS
Emergency Resuscitation Center, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
More information is becoming available about therapeutic hypothermia (TH) for patients following a cardiac arrest. Read more about this innovative treatment here.
Since the advent of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation, few discoveries have changed patient outcomes in the way that induction of therapeutic hypothermia for initial survivors has.
History
Induction of TH following cardiac arrest has many historic roots, but is probably most attributed to Dr. Peter Safar, who in the 1960s argued that the “ABC’s” of resuscitation should include an “H” for application of TH.1-3 However, because of side effects from prolonged moderate hypothermia used at that time and the deficiency in knowledge about optimal TH duration and temperatures, it was abandoned until the 1980s, when animal studies were resumed.2-5 The results from these studies provided the impetus to continue studies in humans.6-10 However, it wasn’t until 2002, when two randomized clinical trials of TH were published side by side in the New England Journal of Medicine, that TH hit the mainstream.11,12
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