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- Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 00:002nd Annual Percutaneous Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: How to Incorporate this Therapeutic Option into Your Practicehttp://www.scripps.org/events/percutaneous-catheter-ablation-of-atrial-fibrillation
- Friday, August 27, 2010 - 23:00ESC Congress 2010http://www.escardio.org/congresses/esc-2010/Pages/welcome.aspx
- Monday, September 13, 2010 - 23:00CEPIA Introduction to Cardiac Electrophysiologyhttp://www.cepia.com.au
- Friday, September 17, 2010 - 00:0016th Annual SASEAP Workshop for EP Allied Professionalshttp://www.saseap.org
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Project Pacer International, a nonprofit Boston, Massachusetts based organization that is dedicated to the provision of cardiac therapy to indigent patients in the developing world, recently completed its first visit to Nairobi, Kenya. Project Pacer International was founded in 1988 and has a long track record of providing pacing and electrophysiology services (as well as interventional cardiology) in the developing world.
Our main focus in the last 20 years has been in India and South America. In Bolivia, where Chagas’ disease is endemic and the need for pacing therapy is substantial, we have developed a close relationship with local cardiologists and now have an active practice of more than 200 patients with implanted devices.1 Recently, however, we have broadened our horizons to include Morocco, and now Kenya.
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J. David Burkhardt, MD, FACC and Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FHRS, Executive Medical Director
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute
Austin, TexasIn this special feature, J. David Burkhardt, MD, FACC and Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FHRS discuss electrophysiology advancements from the past year.
EP Lab Digest Blogs
EP Nursing BlogMelanie T. Gura, RN, MSN and Jane Soposky, RN, MSN
Atrial Fibrillation BlogNassir F. Marrouche, MD
Perspectives in EPTodd J. Cohen, MD
Pediatric EP BlogIan Law, MD
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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