Electrophysiology and Cardiac Arrhythmia Service
Bridgeport Hospital heart rhythm specialists use the latest diagnostics, medications, devices and innovative approaches to care for patients with irregular heart rhythms, heart palpitations and slow and rapid heart rhythms.
Conditions
Our cardiac electrophysiologists treat patients with all types of heart rhythm disorders, including:
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial flutter
- Bradycardia
- Brugada Syndrome
- Device follow-up, including remote home monitoring
- Device infections
- Long QT Syndrome
- Premature atrial and ventricular beats
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Syncope
- Ventricular arrhythmias
- Ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation
- Wolff-Parkinson-White
Treatments
Available treatments include:
- Antiarrhythmic medications
- Cardiac ablation, including catheter and complex procedures
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) for congestive heart failure
- Complicated ablation procedures and pulmonary vein isolations
- Convergent (hybrid) ablation surgery
- Diagnostic electrophysiology studies and risk stratifications
- Electrical cardioversion
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) insertions (transvenous and subcutaneous)
- Implantable pacemaker insertions (transvenous and leadless)
- Left atrial appendage closure with WATCHMAN FLX™ device
- Maze surgery
- Three-dimensional arrhythmia mapping and ablation
