Cardiac Electrophysiology   

Questions discussed in this category


To further elaborate, what level of obstruction with a normal stress test would be acceptable, and what would be too high risk? Would you consider an ...

Watchman device deployed with therapeutic ACT but required multiple recaptures. Patient went into afib during the procedure and after final deployment...

It seems clear that longer monitoring yields more AF detected. What is less clear to me is whether all ILR-detected AF is relevant and merits anticoag...

Would you recommend left atrial appendage occlusion with or without continuing anticoagulation? In light of Maarse et al., JAMA Neurology 2024.

Patient is not a candidate for ablation or resection. Would you consider induction systemic therapy to hopefully shrink the disease away from the pace...

If PVC burden exceeded 10-15%, would you offer ablation in the absence of specific symptoms?  

Can sotalol initiation for atrial fibrillation be performed safely outpatient, and if so, what would be a reasonable approach to accomplishing this?&n...

How would you balance the stroke risk against the bleeding risk? And how would the AF burden play into your decision- would you treat 6 minutes of AF ...

Do you have a preference on type of adjunct AV nodal blocker to use, and do propafenone and flecainide have similar safety profiles? 

Would you then opt for double vector DCCV to deliver 2, 360J shocks simultaneously, and/or bolus with amiodarone? 

Is there a percent change in QTc in which you would consider stopping amiodarone, especially in patients who have baseline wide QRS complexes? 

For example, for younger patients on amiodarone or those who wish to come off antiarrhythmics because of medication side effects.

Do you include the amount of IV amiodarone already administered as part of the loading dose? 

In FRAIL-AF, participants were switched from VKA to dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixaban, and edoxaban.


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