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2018 ESC Syncope Guidelines
Author(s): Jayne Mudd , Jean-Claude Deharo , Rose Anne Kenny Start date: Feb 04, 2020

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Dr P Boon Lim
Dr P Boon Lim is a Cardiologist and electrophysiologisy specialising in heart rhythm disturbances, pacing and syncope at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a senior lecturer at Imperial College London. He graduated from Cambridge University with a double first-class honours degree and completed his cardiology training in Oxford and North West London Hospitals. He pursued a PhD at Imperial… View more
Author(s): Richard Sutton , Michele Brignole Added: 3 years ago
The implantable loop recorder (ILR) is a small device manufactured by Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN, which is implanted subcutaneously close to the heart. It has the ability to record the electrical activity of the heart, store rhythm disturbances within set parameters and can be triggered by the patient to store events. The loop recorder is a device with a high diagnostic yield and offers… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Steven Zweibel , Melissa Trelfa Added: 3 years ago
Continuous outpatient monitoring of a patient’s heart rhythm was initiated in 1949 with the invention of the Holter monitor by Norman J Holter. The early systems were bulky, recorded the heart’s rhythm for 24 or 48 hours onto a tape or cassette, and required that the data be analyzed by a technician after completion of the recording. As technology advanced, smaller devices (event recorders) were… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

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Jayne Mudd
Mrs. Jayne Mudd is a nurse consultant in Cardiac Rhythm Management at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK. Since being appointed as a specialist nurse in arrhythmia management in 1999, Jayne has led a team of nurses that specialize in arrhythmia and syncope management and is lead-nurse in arrhythmia and syncope services across the community and in tertiary settings. Her team… View more
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Author(s): Richard L Weiss Added: 3 years ago
In the practice of clinical cardiology, when is your primary responsibility not to your patient? When asked to approve a patient’s commercial driver’s license, our primary responsibility is to public safety. Since the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 was signed into law, it has been a requirement that truck drivers and bus drivers need to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) in… View more

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Robert S. Sheldon
Job title: Professor of Cardiac Sciences and Medicine
Prof Sheldon’s research interests include clinical trials in syncope, with a particular focus on vasovagal syncope. He was chair of the HRS 2015 guidelines and is a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. View more
Portrait image of Brian Olshansky
Job title: Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Brian Olshansky, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS, FESC is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and an internationally known electrophysiologist. At University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, he directed the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Training Program for six years. Before that, he directed the Electrophysiology Training Program at Loyola… View more
Jean-Claude Deharo
Prof. Jean-Claude Deharo is cardiologist/electrophysiologist at the Hospital Timone in Marseille, France and professor of cardiology at Marseilles Medical School. He has been involved in various ESC and EHRA guidelines and consensus documents, including the 2018 ESC syncope guidelines. He has particular interest in cardiac electrophysiology research in the fields of syncope, lead extraction and… View more
Rose Anne Kenny
Prof. Rose Anne Kenny is founding director of the Falls and Syncope Unit at St. James's Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, IE, head of the Ageing Research Program at Trinity College Dublin, director of the Mercers Institute and holds the Chair of Medical Gerontology. She was task force member of the 2018 ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope. View more