Cardiac Electrophysiology: Diagnosis and Treatment
Key Points 1. Cardiac arrhythmias are common and result from an ectopic focus or a reentry circuit. 2. Surgical and catheter-based ablative therapies can abolish the origins of arrhythmias by…
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in the Adult Patient
Key Points 1. The cardiac catheterization laboratory has evolved from a purely diagnostic facility to a therapeutic one in which many facets of cardiovascular disease can be effectively modified or…
Cardiac Risk, Imaging, and the Cardiology Consultation
Key Points 1. Multivariate modeling has been used to develop risk indices that focus on preoperative variables, intraoperative variables, or both. 2. Key predictors of perioperative risk are dependent on…
