Question

Aims and objectives for project on pacemaker

Answer 1

Electrophysiology (EP) Fellows will be qualified Cardiologists performing 12-24 months of fellowship training in clinical electrophysiology. EP Fellows will be responsible for staffing the EP lab on a rotating basis. This typically involves one fellow operating the stimulator and interpreting electrograms, and a second fellow as a catheter operator. During the course of a year, each fellow can expect to participate in approximately 250 EP studies, split evenly between the catheter and electrograms. This will include the expectation that over 2 years, the fellow will develop proficiency in use of the CARTO and NAV-X mapping systems, and be capable of independent performance of ablation including atrial fibrillation ablation. The fellow will report studies within 48 hours of the study. The first half of fellowship training will entail SVT ablation to learn fundamentals of electrophysiology and catheter manipulation. The second half will involve complex ablation such as pulmonary vein ablation