Cardiac Arrhythmia Service
Patient resources
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Videos
- Atrial fibrillation
- Arrhythmias – What is an arrhythmia and how is it treated?
- Cardiac catheterization
- Electrical system of the heart
- General anesthesia
- General healthy eating
- Heart disease risk factors
- Heart failure
- High blood pressure – What is it?
- How the heart works
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)
- Living with heart disease and stroke
- Physical activity guidelines: getting started
- Stroke
- Transient ischemic attack
- What is a pacemaker and how does it work?
- What is sleep apnea?
Printable materials
Atrial fibrillation
- A patient’s guide to living with atrial fibrillation (356 kb pdf file)
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial fibrillation – How to decrease your risk of stroke
- Atrial fibrillation treatment options
- Atrial fibrillation - What you need to know about cardioversion
- Atrial fibrillation - What do I do if I think I’m having an AFib episode?
- Introduction to atrial fibrillation
- Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
- Your complete guide to atrial fibrillation
Atrial flutter
Blood thinners
- Antiplatelet therapy
- A patient’s guide to taking Coumadin/Warfarin
- A patient’s guide to taking Dabigatran Etexilate
- Information for people who are taking Warfarin/Coumadin or Dabigatran/Pradax or Rivaroxaban/Xarelto or Apixaban/Eliquis
Cardiac and related conditions
- Arrhythmia
- Dialated cardiomyopathy
- Familial dilated cardiomyopathy
- Hyperthrophic cardiomyopathy
- Living with cardiomyopathy
- Palpitations
- Selfcare guide for the heart failure patient
- Sexual health for patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator
- Sick sinus syndrome
- Syncope
- Treatment of syncope
Devices (pacemaker, ICD, CRT)
- Cardiac pacemakers from the patient’s perspective
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy - a patient’s guide
- Coping with my partner’s ICD and cardiac disease
- How to respond to implantable cardioverter-defibrillator Recall
- How to respond to an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shock
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillator
- Living with your pacemaker
- Pacemaker for heart failure (cardiac resynchronization therapy)
Diagnostic tests
- Ambulatory electrocardiographic recording
- Echocardiography
- Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG)
- Exercise stress test
- Holter or event monitor
- Introduction to noninvasive cardiac imaging
- Nuclear stress test
- Transesophageal echocardiogram
Premature contractions
Procedures
- Patient's guide to EP study and catheter ablation (156 kb pdf file)
- Cardioversion
- Catheter ablation of arrhythmias
- Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
- Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia
- Electrophysiology (EP) study
Supraventricular tachycardia
Ventricular arrhythmia
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