Our Services

Southeast Health EP Cardiology specializes in the care of complex heart rhythm disorders and the diagnosis and treatment of many conditions related to the electrical system of the heart. Here, patients can find expert care for heart arrhythmias, cardiac devices and syncope.

Dr. Arthur Kendig and Dr. Michael Pinson are fellowship trained in their field as clinical cardiac electrophysiologist (EP Cardiologists.)

There are many new treatment options available for individuals with complex cardiovascular conditions. Common procedures performed include:

  • Atrial fibrillation ablation (cryoablation and radiofrequency)
  • Complex arrhythmia mapping/ablation (e.g. SVT, PVC’s, VT, atrial flutter)
  • Electrophysiology studies
  • Intracardiac echo
  • Atrial transseptal catheterization
  • Transesophageal echocardiography
  • Cardioversion
  • Biventricular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation
  • Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation (including S-ICD) – (subcutaneous)
  • Permanent pacemaker implantation
  • Loop recorder implantation
  • Tilt table testing
  • Cardiac device programming/management
  • WATCHMAN

If you have atrial fibrillation, also known as AFIB, then you have risk of stroke five times greater than someone with a regular heartbeat. Chances are that to manage that risk, you’re taking a blood thinner like warfarin, which can come with risks of its own.

There is help for patients with AFIB not caused by a heart valve problem. WATCHMAN is a permanent implant, about the size of a quarter that closes off a part of the heart where blood clots commonly form. It does not require open heart surgery, and in most cases the patient will go home the next day.

Research shows that many people are able to stop taking warfarin as soon as 45 days after the procedure. In one study, 99 out of 100 people were able to stop taking warfarin by the end of the first year.