Commonwealth Health WBGH Opens EP Lab

3/2/2015

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (March 3, 2015) – Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital held a grand opening and ribbon cutting for its new Electrophysiology Lab in the Heart & Vascular Institute.  Electrophysiology is a branch of cardiology that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders. EP includes the implantation of cardiac devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization devices that are placed under the skin in the upper chest and are connected to wires that are snaked through veins and positioned into the heart for sensing, pacing and shock delivery.

Attending the ribbon cutting are, from left: Joseph Nealis, R.N., EP coordinator; Stephen Guchanyk, R.N.; Cor Catena, CEO, Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and Commonwealth Health; Dr. Gary Langieri, cardiologist; State Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski; Wilkes-Barre Councilman George Brown; Pam Tahan, chief operating officer, Wilkes-Barre General Hospital; Andy LaFratte, representing Mayor Tom Leighton; Leo Lunney, director, cardiac catheterization lab; Brandon Polack.

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