May 6, 2022 This Week in Cardiology

HRS meeting presentations: conduction system pacing, AF in the ED, a possible new treatment for vagal bradycardia, and women in EP are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic I – HRS Comments II – Conduction System Pacing Conduction System Disease Recast as Preventive Therapy Target https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973488 • Rescue Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing in Coronary Venous Lead Failure or Non-response to Biventricular Pacing: Results From International LBBAP Collaborative Study Group https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.04.024 • Clinical Outcomes Of Conduction System Pacing Compared To Biventricular Pacing In Patients Requiring Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.04.023 III – Emergency Triage of AF Early Arrhythmia-Specialist Consult, Ordered in the ER, a Boon to AF Outcomes: ER2EP Study https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973250 • ClinicalTrials.gov Reference https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04476524 • George Bernard Shaw Reference: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2623628 IV – Cardioneural Ablation Can Ablation Abolish Vasovagal Syncope? Early Series Promising https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973346 V – Women in EP Why Are Numbers of Women, Minorities So Low in Cardiac EP? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/972968 • Temporal and geographical trends in women operators of electrophysiology procedures in the United States https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.02.015 • Quantification of Female and Underrepresented Minority Applicants to Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacep.2022.04.001 You may also like: Medscape editor-in-chief Eric Topol, MD, and master storyteller and clinician Abraham Verghese, MD, on Medicine and the Machine https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine The Bob Harrington Show with Stanford University Chair of Medicine, Robert A. Harrington, MD. https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington Questions or feedback, please contact [email protected]