Electrophysiology
The Electrophysiology Service provides a full scope of arrhythmia management services to inpatients and outpatients at Yale-New Haven Heart and Vascular Center and the greater Connecticut area. These services include consultative and follow-up arrhythmia evaluation and management, as well as hospital-based pharmacologic and procedural (device-based and interventional electrophysiology) management.
Inpatient consultation is available on a full-time basis for assistance in management of patients with arrhythmias. The facilities include two electrophysiology laboratories for diagnostic and therapeutic electrophysiology procedures. Such procedures include: radiofrequency ablation for patients with supraventricular tachycardias (including atrial flutter) and selected patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia; focal atrial and pulmonary vein ablation for atrial tachycardia and atrial fibrillation; and trans-septal catheterization. Pacemakers and ICDs are implanted in the operating rooms.