Category Archives: Cardiac Electrophysiology

Cardiac Electrophysiology

Backups are good

Several months ago, I started making distributed (i.e. on more than one machine), automated, daily backups of my home directries, project and reference directories, and assorted important files.

I have at least one copy of all of these with me on a 500 GB external hard drive. They’re updated until Saturday, when I unhooked my desktop and hauled it up to Mandeville. I left my desktop in my parents’ house in Mandeville, and just brought the 15″ and 17″ PowerBooks. Even if the desktop in Mandeville sustains damage, I have everything I need to keep writing my paper while New Orleans is salvaged.

Make regular, automated backups, people. It just paid off for me.

Cardiac Lab Gets Radio Shout-Out

The well-known Tulane DJ — DJ Benny — has graced the cardiac lab with a mention on his show. You can hear a recording of this mention here (1.4 MB).

Shocking by V/cm

It used to be that we could only really run shocks of a given voltage by testing how much current was needed to produce said voltage. Thanks to Rob, we now have the ability to specify true V/cm shocks in our simulations. That’s what I’m going to spend the rest of the morning doing.

I’ve run the pacing for the ascending ramp project, and now what remains is to do the shocks.

EP Lab Digest Article

I just got the reprints of my EP Lab Digest article! If you’re visiting from there, welcome. Have a look around, and don’t forget to drop by the lab website.

On the Cover

My coauthor from other papers (I’m not on this one) just published a paper in Circulation Research with my advisor and other collaborators. As you can see on the linked page (at least until the next issue is out), the article made the cover! The last link should be good regardless of which issue is current.

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