We spoke to Dr John Triedman (Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) about ventricular tachycardias in children, the mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT), supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) and use of catheter ablation to treat VT. He also touches on postoperative junctional ectopic tachycardia and its treatment in children.
Speaker’s Disclosures: John Triedman wishes to disclose that his institution receives modest consulting income from Biosense Webster, a vendor of EP equipment, in exchange for providing non-CME technical education to visiting physicians and nurses.
Questions:
1. Please tell us about mapping and ablation principles of ventricular tachycardia in children with or without coronary heart disease (0:09)
2. What can you tell us about the treatment of supraventricular tachycardia in children? (0:45)
3. Tell us about the topic of your presentation (1:42)
4. Please tell us about postoperative junctional ectopic tachycardia and treatments for this in children (2:07)
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Filmed at the Heart Rhythm Congress (HRC) 2019 in Birmingham, UK, October 2019 in partnership with Arrhythmia Alliance.
