Cardiac Electrophysiology - Spring 2006

Volume 57, Number 1
Spring 2006
 

About the Cover Electrophysiology sparked the imagination of the journal’s editorial staff to think of electricity and thus lightning. Since Australian photographer Michael Bath has “a passion for thunderstorms – in particular severe thunderstorms and lightning,” his 1990 photograph of a lightning strike in Ballina, New South Wales (NSW) seemed an appropriate choice for the cover of this journal issue. It symbolizes cutting-edge technology such as intracardiac defibrillators (ICD), cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and intracardiac ablation used to treat the most serious cardiac diseases.  For more of Michael Bath's photos, visit www.lightningphotography.com and www.australiasevereweather.com. Click here for a profile (PDF file).

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• From the Editor's Desk: Florida Medicaid Reform - Stopping the Runaway Train

• From the President's Desk: Focus on the Opportunities - Inaugural Comments from the 2006 DCMS Annual Meeting.

• From the Executive Vice President: Lending a Helping Hand

• Yank Coble, Jr., MD Spearheads Caring Physicians Initiative while World Medical Association President

  • Link to Caring Physicians of the World Initiative website

  • Profile of Edward Annis, MD, a longtime FMA member

• Guest Editor's Note: Electrophysiology: The Shocking Truth
  Trevor Greene, MD, Guest Editor

• Medical Management of Atrial Fibrillation -- Which Medications Should be Considered
  by Eric Carlson, MD and Steve Hsu, MD

• Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation
  by Michael Bluett, MD

• Atrial Fibrillation: Role of Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation
  by Fred M. Kusumoto, MD

• Pediatric Sudden Cardiac Death
  Randall M. Bryant, MD

• Sudden Cardiac Death
  Robert Luke, MD

• Medical Management of Heart Failure
  Thomas Wolford, MD

• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
  Trevor O. Greene, MD