Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology (EP)

Facilities and Advanced Technology

The Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Shaheed Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center is one of the **unique departments 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 (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.

Staffing and Patient Care

These services are performed by 8 experienced Electrophysiologists 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 the privilege of treating all kinds 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, short QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, etc.

Training and Fellowship

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 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.