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10 COVER STORY FEBRUARY 2008 TEXAS CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE Continued from page 9 components of an EP study; and an overview of ablation procedures. Prucka System workshop. This workshop is scheduled for June 2008. Mechanics of an EP Study – September 2008. Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to: 1) Demonstrate an understanding of nursing care involved immediately prior to an EP study and nursing care involved during a study; 2) Describe sterile protocol and radiation safety; 3) Recognize the correlation between intracardiac electrograms and the surface EKG; 4) Understand the baseline intervals and what they represent and why they are important, as well as be able to identify abnormal intervals; 5) Define the pacing protocols involved during a basic EP study and the mechanism involved in determining a diagnosis; 6) Be able to identify and interpret electrograms of different types of supraventricular and ventricular tachycardias; 7) Understand the difference between reentrant and automatic tachycardias; 8) Identify electrograms during ablation of specific tachycardias; 9) Practice interpretation of EKGs pertaining to electrophysiology; and 10) Understand syncope diagnosis and treatment. Advanced Cardiac EP – October 2008. Upon completion of this course, participants will: 1) Study ICDs and Bi-V therapy: indications, implant techniques, and basic programming; 2) Understand the mechanism involved in determining a diagnosis; 3) Be able to identify and interpret electrograms of different types of supraventricular and ventricular tachycardias; 4) Understand the difference between reentrant and automatic tachycardia, antidromic and orthodromic tachycardia, and WPW — overt, concealed EKGs; 5) Demonstrate an understanding of electrograms during an ablation of a specific tachycardia; 6) Understand the mechanism of resistive heating versus conductive heating in myocardial cell death, and understand the benefits and differences between 4mm, 8mm and irrigated tip ablation catheters; 7) Understand how and why radiofrequency energy is effective in curing arrhythmias; 8) Understand syncope diagnosis and treatment; 9) Learn an overview of a 3D mapping system; and 10) Understand the electrical analysis and anatomical consideration of transvenous pacing and defibrillation lead placement. EnSite (ESI) NavX System Workshop – November 2008. Upon completion, attendees will be able to: Bring the system up Javier Sanchez, MD, in direct communication with the participants. and understand the steps for contact and non-contact mapping; Be able to collect geometry from the Array catheter; and Understand the activation feature and be able to work with the reps on several cases. 3D Mapping System – CARTO XP and Ultrasound workshop. This workshop is scheduled for December 2008. Mark Kroll, PhD during his presentation on “Indications for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.” Acknowledgment The new training center was designed by Jeff Pelkey, RRT at St. David’s Medical Center. TCAI gratefully acknowledges him for transforming a vision into reality! To request more details about the on-site physician proctoring admission condition or any other TCAI courses, or to purchase any course syllabus, please contact: “admin@tcainstitute.com”. TCAI can also be reached at 866-892-3408 or by visiting: www.tcainstitute.com Program attendees. http://www.tcainstitute.com http://www.tcainstitute.com

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EP Lab Digest - February 2008 Creating the U-M Center for Arrhythmia Research: Interview with José Jalife, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute and St. David’s Medical Center Launch State-of-the-Art Training Center Contents Letter from the Editor Spotlight Interview: Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center 10-Minute Interview: Sue Deck, BS, RN, RCES Keeping Pace With a Blog Roundtable Discussion on Cryoablation Procedures Email Discussion Group: February 2008 Events Calendar Industry News and Products Classifieds Advertisers Index

EP Lab Digest - February 2008

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