Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias for the Clinician

Dr. Sanjay Dixit received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (1988) and MD (1992) from MLN Medical College, Allahabad, India. He then spent 2 years at Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center in Delhi, India (until 1994). In 1995, Dr. Dixit moved to the U.S. and performed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at S.U.N.Y. in Syracuse, NY. Of note, during his medicine residency he was named "Best Intern" and "Best Resident" and was also elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) society. Dr. Dixit then completed a three-year fellowship in Cardiology at S.U.N.Y. in Syracuse, NY. In July of 2000, he began a two-year clinical electrophysiology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In July of 2002 Dr. Dixit joined the Penn faculty as Assistant Professor in the CE track of the Cardiovascular Division of Medicine in the School of Medicine and was appointed Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Program at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July of 2010. Dr. Dixit is ABIM-certified in Internal Medicine (1997), Cardiovascular Disease (2002; recertified 2010) and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (2004).

Palpitations.- Syncope.- Supra-ventricular Arrhythmias.- Overview.- A-V nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT).- Accessory pathway mediated tachyacardia (WPW syndrome).- Atrial tacycardias.- Atrial flutter.- Atrial fibrillation .-Ventricular Arrhythmias.- Overview.- Idiopathic VT (outflow tract, fascicular, etc).- VT in patients with structural heart disease.- Inherited arrhythmia syndromes (Long QT, Brugada, Catecholaminergic VT, etc).- Polymorphic VT and VF .- Sudden Cardiac Arrest.- Overview.- Risk stratification.- Management .- Arrhythmias in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients.-Bradyarrhythmias.- Anti Arrhythmic Drug Therapy.- Classification.- Individual drug profile and use.-Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices.- Pacemaker.- Implantable cardioverter-deifibrillator (ICD).- Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices.-Common EP Procedures.- Head up tilt test.- Drug infusion study.- Invasive electrophysiologic study (EPS).- Ablation therapy.