… An interventional cardiologist– the cardiologists who put in stents and usually treat heart attack patients in the first few hours– asked an electrophysiologist– the cardiologists who treat arrhythmias– whether wearable defibrillators should be used post-MI. Here’s what that electrophysiologist, Edward J. Schloss, the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, replied….
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Guest Post: How Sure Can We Be About Optisure?
March 28, 2014 by 2 Comments
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. How Sure Can We Be About Optisure? by Edward J. Schloss, MD On March 24, St. Jude Medical announced the global launch…
Guest Post: Case Report Of Durata Lead Failure Raises Fresh Concerns
March 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Case Report Of Durata Lead Failure Raises Fresh Concerns by Edward J. Schloss, MD A case report of a failed St. Jude Medical Durata…
2012 In Review: Social Media In Cardiology
December 23, 2012 by 6 Comments
For a whole variety of reasons most cardiologists are not really comfortable diving into social media. For some reason they’re more comfortable remaining poolside, reading Braunwald or the latest mini JACC or Circulation than writing a blog or interacting with each other or their patients on Facebook or Twitter. Most cardiologists who do get their feet wet send out a few…
BLOCK HF: A “Game Changer” For Cardiac Pacing
November 6, 2012 by 3 Comments
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Dr. Schloss was an investigator in the BLOCK HF trial. In what has been described as a “game changer” for the field of…
Guest Post: New Questions Raised About Latest Generation St. Jude ICD Leads
August 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. New Questions About Latest Generation ICD Leads From St. Jude by Edward J. Schloss A highly anticipated study analyzing failures of St. Jude Durata…
Guest Post: FDA Clarifies Riata Imaging Recommendations
August 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Additional clarity regarding yesterday’s St. Jude Riata/Riata ST imaging recommendations has arrived in the form of another FDA Safety Communication available at the…
Guest Post: FDA Calls For X-Ray Screening Of Riata Leads And Additional Followup Studies
August 16, 2012 by 1 Comment
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. St. Jude’s troubled implantable defibrillator leads came under a fresh layer of scrutiny today with new FDA imaging recommendations and post-market study requirements. …
Guest Post: Is It The Right Time To Introduce Real Supervision Into Medical Practice?
August 10, 2012 by 1 Comment
Editor’s Note: Dr. Schloss, the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, originally submitted the following post as a comment on my previous post in which I compared HCA to Barclays and JP Morgan. I’d be very eager to hear responses from other physicians about this subject. Is It The Right Time To…
Guest Post: An Electrophysiologist Looks At The New HRS/ACCF Pacemaker Guidelines
August 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Overview of the New HRS/ACCF Pacemaker Guidelines by Edward J Schloss MD Since the development of the first dual chamber pacemakers in the 1980s, doctors…
New ICD Lead Technology Creates New Set of Problems: A Perspective From One Electrophysiologist
July 16, 2012 by 2 Comments
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Why I Don’t Like DF-4: A Personal Perspective by Edward J Schloss MD Since the first human implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implant in 1980,…
Single Case Report Casts New Doubts About St. Jude Durata ICD Leads
June 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. As if on cue, just as the train pulled into the Nice-Ville station for this week’s Cardiostim 2012 meeting on the French Riviera, my…
Robert Hauser, ICD Watchdog, Offers Viewpoint On Riata Controversy At HRS
May 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Robert Hauser, ICD Watchdog, Offers Viewpoint On Riata Controversy At HRS by Edward J Schloss MD The St. Jude Riata ICD lead controversy took…
HRS 2012: More Clarity on DOJ ICD Investigation, “Incidental PCIs” Still Excluded
May 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In a guest post, electrophysiologist Edward J. Schloss recounts a talk at Heart Rhythm Scientific Sessions 2012 by Suneet Mittal which provided a detailed account of his group’s experience with a Department of Justice investigation of ICD implantation outside of NCD guidelines….
Guest Post: Shedding Light On Riata At The Heart Rhythm Society Meeting
May 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Shedding Light On Riata At The Heart Rhythm Society Meeting by Edward J Schloss MD This morning in Boston, HRS 2012 sessions began with…
Heart Rhythm Editor Douglas Zipes Defends Peer Review
April 30, 2012 by 4 Comments
Rejecting an extraordinary request from industry to retract a controversial paper, Douglas Zipes, the editor-in-chief of HeartRhythm, has written a rare, highly pointed editorial defending the publication process. “If one disagrees with facts/statements in a publication,” writes the editor, Douglas Zipes, “there is a well-defined approach that can begin with a letter to the editor or submission…
Guest Post: After an Unprecedented Request for a Retraction, A Close Look at the Data
April 13, 2012 by 3 Comments
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. After an Unprecedented Request for a Retraction, A Close Look at the Data by Edward J Schloss MD Last week, St. Jude Medical took…
Round Two: Heart Rhythm Editor Rejects St Jude Request to Retract Riata Paper
April 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Douglas Zipes, the editor of Heart Rhythm, said the journal will not retract a controversial paper that has raised new safety concerns about St. Jude’s embattled Riata leads. On Friday (as reported here) St. Jude issued a press release alleging numerous mistakes and oversights in an article by Robert Hauser published online in Heart Rhythm linking the company’s Riata…
Guest Post: Lessons from the Riata Recall– Part III
March 30, 2012 by 1 Comment
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Lessons from the Riata Recall– Part III by Edward J Schloss MD In two earlier posts on Cardiobrief (here and here), I have written…
Guest Post: More Lessons From the Riata ICD Lead Recall
February 22, 2012 by 7 Comments
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. This post is longer and far more technical than most of the content published on CardioBrief. Due to the extraordinary nature of the…
Guest Post: What Are the Lessons of the Riata ICD Lead Recall?
February 14, 2012 by 2 Comments
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. What Are the Implications of the Riata ICD Recall? by Edward J. Schloss, MD This week the New England Journal of Medicine published an…
Guest Post: Report from the Riata ICD Lead Summit
January 21, 2012 by 8 Comments
Second update: Click here to review the slides from the meeting (posted by the Minneapolis Heart Institute), Update: Click here to read a statement from St Jude Medical in response to this post. Editor’s Note: Edward J. Schloss (Twitter ID @EJSMD), the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, returned…
Guest Post: Of Drug Talks, Deception, and Denial
November 23, 2010 by 2 Comments
This guest post by Roy Poses, MD, is reprinted with permission from Health Care Renewal. by Roy M. Poses, MD A month ago, we discussed a series of reports by Pro Publica and multiple other respected news organizations about payments by seven pharmaceutical companies to thousands of doctors. Industry often claims that they only pay the best and the…
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