System
PIU stands for this
What is a Patient Interface Unit?
2 types of ablation catheters and energies
What is PFA (Varipulse) and RF (STSF)?
Most common mechanism of tachycardia
What is reentrant tachycardia?
Most common arrhythmia type
What is afib?
Most common direction of rotation in typical flutter
What is counterclockwise?
Piece of equipment that generates magnetic field
What is location pad?
Energy type that is more customizable for physicians
What is RF energy?
3 types of SVT that are not able to be diagnosed from a 12 lead
What is AVNRT, AVRT/Pathway, and Focal AT?
Atrial rate in afib
What is 400bpm or more?
CTI stands for this
What is cavotricuspid isthmus?
Catheters involved in 4 catheter EP study
What are HRA (quad), HIS (quad), RV (quad), and CS (deca)?
3 main ways to affect RF lesion size
What is power, time, and contact force
Where we ablate AVNRT
What is the slow pathway?
Where we ablate to treat afib
What are the 4 pulmonary veins in the LA (and sometimes LA posterior wall)?
ECG characteristics of typical flutter
What are sawtooth P waves
Components of current-based carto technology
What are back patches, chest patches, and catheter with electrodes?
How PFA creates lesions
What are Concealed and Manifest?
Scenario when we commonly use a temperature probe in the esophagus when treating afib
What is RF energy to treat afib / burning on LA posterior wall?
Where atypical flutter can occur
Name of Carto's hybrid technology
What is ACL (Advanced Catheter Location)?
Components of RF circuit
What is catheter, patient body, grounding pad, and generator?
Type of SVT where we see VAAV response upon entraining
Pacing maneuver when we pace inside the vein to see if signal conducts to the rest of the heart
What is exit block pacing?
Pacing maneuver to determine CTI line success
What is differential pacing for bidirectional block?