May 6, 2022 This Week in Cardiology

HRS meeting presentations: conduction system pacing, AF in the ED, a possible new treatment for vagal bradycardia, and women in EP are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

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I – HRS Comments

II – Conduction System Pacing

Conduction System Disease Recast as Preventive Therapy Target

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973488

• Rescue Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing in Coronary Venous Lead Failure or Non-response to Biventricular Pacing: Results From International LBBAP Collaborative Study Group

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.04.024

• Clinical Outcomes Of Conduction System Pacing Compared To Biventricular Pacing In Patients Requiring Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.04.023

III – Emergency Triage of AF

Early Arrhythmia-Specialist Consult, Ordered in the ER, a Boon to AF Outcomes: ER2EP Study

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973250

• ClinicalTrials.gov Reference

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04476524

• George Bernard Shaw Reference:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2623628

IV – Cardioneural Ablation

Can Ablation Abolish Vasovagal Syncope? Early Series Promising

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973346

V – Women in EP

Why Are Numbers of Women, Minorities So Low in Cardiac EP?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/972968

• Temporal and geographical trends in women operators of electrophysiology procedures in the United States

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.02.015

• Quantification of Female and Underrepresented Minority Applicants to Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship

https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacep.2022.04.001

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