Dr. Wes

A 70 year old woman underwent a DDDR pacemaker implantation (Medtronic Versa DR) and AV junction ablation for chronic atrial fibrillation re...

Recently, our laboratory was performing a catheter ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in a patient with a permanent pacemaker previo...

Sometimes what we do is just cool. Cardiac electrophysiology has amazing technology at its disposal. One of these is three dimensional m...

The following is a case study intended for folks who look at defibrillator recordings.  If you find it interesting, great.  If you have no ...

... your wires look like this:  AP fluoroscopic view  ... and the venogram looks like this:  Results of a left subclavian veno...

A dual chamber pacemaker was implanted the prior day by a local surgeon in the operating room.  The next morning, an EKG is obtained that sh...

Radiologist: "Um, doctor, there's something funny on your patient's post-operative chest x-ray:"  Post -operative Ch...

The following is an actual cardiac electrophysiology case study offered with the patient's permission. It's technical and contains...

... unless, of course, you're a cardiac electrophysiologist: An anterior-posterior (AP) and lateral (LAT) chest radiograph (Click i...

Fluoroscopic image So, what is it? -Wes

"Doctor, I've been taking my vitals signs and they've been very stable, but recently I've noted I just have no "get-up...

He arrived at the emergency room diaphoretic, hypotensive, and with substernal chest pressure.  The patient was brought immediately to an em...

Medicine is unique because it involves people.  While people make this job challenging, they also make this job the best job in the world.  ...

If a baby is born with a portion of her heart outside the chest, what do you do? Why, make a new chest , of course (video). -Wes

... your pause, when held vertical, exceeds one third of your height: Strip recorded 1.5 years after implant of an implantable loop reco...

It came from a  case report published online before print in PACE from Dr. John Marenco of Tufts University in Springfield, Massachusetts:...

He was referred for consideration of a biventricular ICD implant after a failed attempt at an outside institution. When listening to his lu...

He was a 65 year-old previously healthy avid exercise enthusiast on no medications who was referred for evaluation of two near-syncopal epis...

It was an interesting tweet that referenced a soon-to-be-published case report from the Annals of Emergency Medicine (via @EmergencyDocs ) ...

I still think this case was cool, so I'll link to it once again. Have a nice weekend. -Wes