PMID- 25552672
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150908
LR  - 20220317
IS  - 1532-2092 (Electronic)
IS  - 1099-5129 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 1
DP  - 2015 Jan
TI  - Do cardiologists follow the European guidelines for cardiac pacing and 
      resynchronization therapy? Results of the European Heart Rhythm Association 
      survey.
PG  - 148-51
LID - 10.1093/europace/euu395 [doi]
AB  - The purpose of this European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) EP wire survey was 
      to evaluate the implementation of the current guidelines for cardiac pacing and 
      cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in Europe. A total of 48 centres replied 
      to the survey, 34 of them (71%) were university hospitals. All responding centres 
      implement CRT in patients with classical indications, i.e. sinus rhythm, New York 
      Heart Association (NYHA) functional class II, III, or ambulatory IV, left 
      ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) 35%, and left bundle-branch block (LBBB) 
      with QRS duration >150 ms, while 31 centres (67%) would implant a CRT device in 
      patients with the same characteristics but with a non-LBBB pattern. Forty-one 
      centres (89%) would also implant CRT in patients with sinus rhythm, NYHA Class 
      II, III, or ambulatory IV, LVEF <35%, and LBBB with QRS duration between 120 and 
      150 ms, while only eight centres (17%) would implant the device in patients with 
      the same characteristics but with a non-LBBB pattern. In patients with LVEF <35% 
      and QRS duration below 120 ms, the majority of the centres (80%) would implant a 
      single- or dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, but in nine cases 
      (20%) no device was considered to be indicated. The results of this survey showed 
      a good adherence to some of the current recommendations. Still some reluctance 
      exists when offering the device therapy to patients with QRS duration in the 
      lower range.
CI  - Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. (c) 
      The Author 2014. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.
FAU - Sciaraffia, Elena
AU  - Sciaraffia E
AD  - Department of Cardiology, Institution of Medical Science, Uppsala University, 
      Uppsala 75185, Sweden elenasciaraffia@mail.com.
FAU - Dagres, Nikolaus
AU  - Dagres N
AD  - Second Cardiology Department, Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens, 
      Rimini 1, Haidari Athens 12462, Greece.
FAU - Hernandez-Madrid, Antonio
AU  - Hernandez-Madrid A
AD  - Cardiology Department, Ramon y Cajal Hospital, Carretera Colmenar Viejo, km 9, 
      100, Madrid 28034, Spain.
FAU - Proclemer, Alessandro
AU  - Proclemer A
AD  - Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiothoracic Science, University Hospital 
      S. Maria Della Misericordia, Udine, Italy.
FAU - Todd, Derick
AU  - Todd D
AD  - Institute of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science, Liverpool Heart and Chest 
      Hospital, Thomas Drive, Liverpool L14 3PE, UK.
FAU - Blomstrom-Lundqvist, Carina
AU  - Blomstrom-Lundqvist C
AD  - Department of Cardiology, Institution of Medical Science, Uppsala University, 
      Uppsala 75185, Sweden.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PL  - England
TA  - Europace
JT  - Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal 
      of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular 
      electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology
JID - 100883649
SB  - IM
MH  - Cardiac Pacing, Artificial/*standards/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy/*standards/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Cardiology/standards
MH  - Europe/epidemiology
MH  - Guideline Adherence/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Health Care Surveys
MH  - Heart Failure/epidemiology/*prevention & control
MH  - Humans
MH  - Practice Patterns, Physicians'/standards/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Prevalence
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adherence
OT  - Cardiac pacing
OT  - Cardiac resynchronization therapy
OT  - EHRA survey
OT  - EP wire
OT  - ESC guidelines
EDAT- 2015/01/02 06:00
MHDA- 2015/09/09 06:00
CRDT- 2015/01/02 06:00
PHST- 2015/01/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/01/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/09/09 06:00 [medline]
AID - euu395 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/europace/euu395 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Europace. 2015 Jan;17(1):148-51. doi: 10.1093/europace/euu395.