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Does it make sense to train plumbers as electricians?

Division of Cardiology and the Pennsylvania State Cardiovascular Center, Penn State University College of Medicine and the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania

Manuscript received May 11, 2004; accepted May 18, 2004.

^* Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Gerald V. Naccarelli, Bernard Trabin Chair of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, Chief of Division of Cardiology, Director of Cardiovascular Center, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033 (Email: gnaccarelli{at}psu.edu).

There is an expanded need for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization pacemakers as part of the treatment of patients with left ventricular dysfunction. A large number of such patients present to heart failure (HF) specialists for recommendations related to their care. In this paper, a pathway is presented that would combine training in HF/transplantation and cardiac implantable electrical devices.

Abbreviations and Acronyms   CIED = cardiac implantable electrical device   CRT = cardiac resynchronization   HF = heart failure   ICD = implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

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