EP Lab Digest - September 2007 - (Page 4)

4 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR SEPTEMBER 2007 HMP Communications Jodie Elrod, Managing Editor PAUL MACKLER Chief Executive Officer KEN FISHER Chief Financial Officer It’s Our Six-Year Anniversary! This month, we feature several different articles about patient perspectives. PETER NORRIS Executive Vice President/General Manager JEFFREY MARTIN Vice President/Group Publisher ALEX SLONIM Vice President/Associate Publisher of Cardiology CARSON MCBRAYER National Account Manager NICK OTRANTO Account Manager LUCINDA BESKA Classified Advertising Sales Manager D Digest’s email or answers, please email us “eplabdigest@ ear readers, We have some fantastic articles in our special anniversary issue this month. Highlights from our September issue include: FRED KLUMPP Manager of Information Systems VIC GEANOPULOS Creative Director KATHY MURPHY Production Director Our first article this month is from Dr. Samuel Sears, who studied the effectiveness of an ICD shock and stress management program in ICD patients. Next, Mary Jo Gordon from the C.A.R.E. Foundation provides an in-depth look into the need for universal ECG screening for young stuThere are more dent athletes. We also talk with another EP patient organization entitled The Mended Hearts, who provide services to patients and their families. new questions Finally, we talk with leaders of several ICD support groups around the on EP Lab country about the common issues patients face. In addition, in honor of our six-year anniversary, we are revisiting discussion Morristown Memorial Hospital’s EP lab, which was featured as the Spotlight Interview in our inaugural September 2001 issue! Their lab has group! To post grown considerably since then,yet the staff and physicians still relate to each new questions other like members of a close-knit family. We are proud to feature this update of their lab. Lastly, I want to let you all know that EP Lab Digest has gone digital! The first digital issue of EP Lab Digest will be available starting with the at September issue. Please check out our website for a sneak peek of the issue! Readers, if you would be interested in submitting an article to EP Lab STEFANIE TULEYA Special Projects Editor PATRICIA LEVY Director of Medical Education BONNIE SHANNON Circulation Manager EP LAB DIGEST (ISSN# 1535-2226) is issued 12 times per year by HMP COMMUNICATIONS, 83 General Warren Blvd., Suite 100, Malvern, PA 19355. Printed in the USA at Publisher’s Press, Inc., 100 Frank E. Simon Ave., Shepherdsville, KY 40165. Copyright© 2007 by HMP COMMUNICATIONS. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed by authors are their own and not necessarily those of their institution or HMP COMMUNICATIONS, the editorial staff, or any member of the editorial advisory board. Reprints of articles are available. Contact HMP COMMUNICATIONS for information. Editorial Correspondence: Jodie Elrod, Managing Editor, HMP COMMUNICATIONS, 4502 Thorncroft Ave., Royal Oak, MI 48073. Tel: 1 (800) 371-0791 Fax: (248) 549-1472 E-mail Address: jelrod@hmpcommunications.com Advertising: Jeffrey Martin, Vice President/Group Publisher 1-800-237-7285, ext. 238 or E-mail: jmartin@hmpcommunications.com hotmail.com”. Digest, please contact us.We would love to hear from you! Thanks for reading! Alex Slonim, Vice President/Associate Publisher 1-800-237-7285, ext. 245 or E-mail: aslonim@hmpcommunications.com Carson McBrayer, National Account Manager 1-800-237-7285, ext. 234 or E-mail: cmcbrayer@hmpcommunications.com Nick Otranto, Account Manager 1-800-237-7285, ext. 270 or E-mail: notranto@hmpcommunications.com Advertising address: HMP COMMUNICATIONS 83 General Warren Blvd., Suite 100, Malvern, PA 19355. 1-800-237-7285. Jodie Elrod Managing Editor jelrod@hmpcommunications.com SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION EP LAB DIGEST is sent to all Electrophysiology lab personnel working in the United States (international subscription is $65/1 year, $110/2 years, $150/3 years). If you are not receiving EP LAB DIGEST and would like to, or to make an address change, please complete the enclosed postage-paid subscription card and return to: HMP COMMUNICATIONS; 83 General Warren Blvd., Suite 100 • Malvern, PA 19355; 1-800-237-7285 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to EP Lab Digest, 83 General Warren Blvd., Suite 100, Malvern, PA 19355. Periodicals postage pending at Malvern, PA and at additional mailing offices.

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The ICD Shock and Stress Management Program: Interview with Samuel F. Sears Jr., PhD Universal ECG Screening: The Advocate’s Perspective Contents Letter from the Editor Spotlight Interview: Morristown Memorial Hospital 10-Minute Interview: About the Mended Hearts and Mended Little Hearts Organizations ICD Patient Support Groups Email Discussion Group: September 2007 Technology: Only As Good As the Attitude Behind It! Electrophysiologic Management and Treatment of Chronic and Acute Cardiac Device Infection First Annual EP Lab Digest Salary Survey Events Calendar Industry News and Products

EP Lab Digest - September 2007

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