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Electrophysiology Service

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The Electrophysiology Service specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of complex heart arrhythmias (heart rhythm irregularities) in children and young adults.

With five full-time cardiologists, plus nurse specialists and several highly trained fellows, Children's Hospital Boston supports one of the largest electrophysiology programs in the country.

Specialized program and staff
The skills and equipment for treating irregular heart rhythms are highly specialized, but must be tightly integrated with the patient's overall health and treatment for other conditions. This is an area where Children's excels. Electrophysiologists work closely with other cardiologists and other specialists to achieve the best outcomes for these complex cases.

Because Children's routinely handles heart rhythm disturbances in infants and very young children, the program is attuned to their needs. Their smaller size and still-developing physiology require smaller equipment than that used for adults, as well as special care in anesthesia and exceptional diagnostic and surgical skills.

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Edward Walsh, MD, and John Triedman, MD, of Children's Electrophysiology Service have helped develop a new technology that electrically maps the heart, providing an extremely detailed way to see where in the heart complex arrhythmias originate. The resulting catheter-based ablations allow Children's cardiologists to treat arrhythmias with extreme precision. Children's uses the technology to repair complex arrhythmias in more congenital heart patients than any other hospital in the world.
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