Interventional Electrophysiology department

Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Shaheed Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center is one of the unique department in the field of cardiac electrophysiology in the East Mediterranean region. This lab is equipped with five rooms; three rooms dedicated to the electrophysiology study and catheter ablation and two rooms for device implantations. 

Two EP rooms have been equipped with latest technologies including 3D-mapping systems including CARTO and NAVX precision and atrial fibrillation (AF) Cryoballoon ablation. Every day, all EP procedures from simple EP study to complex structural ventricular tachycardia (VT), atrial tachycardia (AT), atrial flutter (AFL) and AF ablations are done in this center. All kind of device procedures are performed in the device rooms from single chamber pacemaker to advance defibrillator/resynchronization devices for heart failure patients and device extractions.

These services are performed by 8 experienced Electrophysilogists including 6 Adult and 2 Pediatric attending physicians. The physician members of this team are dedicated exclusively to electrophysiology and provide on-call support, 24 hours a day, seven days per week.

This department has privileged of treating all kind of rhythm disorders in patients with supraventricular and ventricular tachycardias and bradyarrhythmias. Patients include those with coronary artery diseases, cardiomyopathies, hereditary arrhythmias in ion-channelopathies such as long QT syndrome, shot QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, etc.

This department was the first in the Middle East for starting EP fellowship training program. This program is an 18-month course including A-to-Z of Cardiac Electrophysiology and accepting 4 eligible fellows each year.

The department is also launched a new complimentary program beyond the official 18-month course for those people who want further training in the field of complex arrhythmia ablation including AF and VT.