October 2020

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Volume 20 Issue 10

Editorial Staff

Clinical Editor
Bradley Knight, MD
Executive Editor
Laurie Gustafson
Managing Editor
Jodie Elrod
Production Manager
Alexa Flinn

Editorial Correspondence

Jodie Elrod, Managing Editor, EP Lab Digest
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Making the Electronic Health Record Better: An EP’s Perspective
Physicians are rarely given the opportunity to provide simple suggestions that could make the EHR better. The current system of using asynchronized, impersonal, frustrating communication (ie, submitting a “ticket” to the hospital IT department) rarel…
SADS Foundation: Unprecedented Times Call for Unexplored Changes
The mission of the SADS Foundation to save the lives and support the families of children and adults who are genetically predisposed to sudden death due to heart rhythm abnormalities will not stop in spite of these unprecedented times.
COVID-19 Perspectives: Update From the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University
In 2019, EP Lab Digest featured an article about the EP program at the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, located in Shijiazhuang, China. In this interview, Yan Jia, MD, PhD and Chenglong Miao, MD, PhD provide an update about their program’…
Partial Fracture of a Subcutaneous ICD Lead from Mechanical Trauma
Hieu Huynh, DO and colleagues present the first reported case of a subcutaneous ICD electrode failure secondary to partial fracture as a result of mechanical trauma.
Simultaneous Axillary Venous Access for Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitor and Biventricular Defibrillator Implantation
Arnold H. Seto, MD, MPA and colleagues describe implantation of the CardioMEMS HF system (Abbott) via the axillary vein at the time of biventricular defibrillator implantation.
Acute Flecainide Toxicity: A Case Report
Ganesh Venkataraman, MD presents a case that illustrates the importance of prompt symptom and ECG recognition, as well as the specific management of acute flecainide toxicity.
Spotlight Interview: Edward Hospital
In this issue, we speak with Moeen Saleem, MD about his EP program at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois. Edward Hospital is part of Edward-Elmhurst Health, which is one of the top 10 health systems for cardiovascular care in Illinois and ranked…
Expanding the Pediatric Cardiac Monitoring Tool Box: Experience With Novel Ambulatory Cardiac Rhythm Monitoring Technologies
Angela G. Romme, MSc and Hoang H. Nguyen, MD, MSCR, MSCA detail their experience with some of the recent innovations in ambulatory ECG monitoring technology.
How to Protect the Esophagus: A Review of Past, Present, and Future Approaches
Linda Moulton, RN, MS provides a review of the pathophysiology, presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and attempts to prevent atrioesophageal fistula formation.