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what the risks are heart, conduction system, the heart, electrophysiology study, intracardiac, eps, intracardiac, intracardiac electrophysiology study, eps, involves placing wire electrodes, the heart, the characteristics of heart arrhythmias study is performed, hospital laboratory by a trained staff, cardiologists, technicians, nurses, environment is safe, controlled to minimize any danger, risk, cardiologist inserts a catheter, a small incision, groin vein after cleansing the site, numbing it, a local anesthetic, catheter is equipped, an electrode connected to electrocardiographic monitors, catheter is then threaded, heart using an x-ray imaging technique, fluoroscopy to guide the insertion, electrodes, in the heart to measure electrical activity, along the heart's conduction system, heart muscle cells themselves, normal electrical activity is signaled, heart's natural pacemaker known, the sinoatrial, sa, node, travels, the atria, two chambers on the top, the heart, atrioventricular, av, node, connecting the atria, ventricles, ventricles, lower chambers, the heart, abnormal electrical activity, occur anywhere, along this conduction system, in the muscle cells of either the atria, ventricles, electrodes inserted, eps, map the type of arrhythmia have, problem arises in heart, information allows cardiologist, the severity, the problem, at risk, sudden cardiac death, appropriate treatment, test preparations, similar to those, cardiac catheterization, food, fluid, restricted 6, 8 hours, procedure takes place, hospital, wear hospital clothing, must sign a consent form, the procedure, give instructions regarding any changes to medications, not modify, stop taking any medications, consulting health care provider, a mild sedative, given 30 minutes, the procedure, not be able to drive home yourself, discharged the same day, awake, able to follow instructions, procedure generally lasts from 20 minutes to 1 hour, in the case of a simple eps, take longer, other procedures, involved, performing eps, is invasive, cardiologist, try to identify a suspected arrhythmia using other, less invasive tests, ambulatory cardiac monitoring, abnormal rhythm is not detected by these other methods, symptoms suggest, an arrhythmia, eps recommended, additional reasons that eps considered, to find the location of a known arrhythmia, determine the best therapy, to assess the severity, the arrhythmia, at risk, future cardiac events, sudden cardiac death, to evaluate the effectiveness of medication in controlling an arrhythmia, place, arrhythmia is coming, ablated, to evaluate the need, permanent pacemaker, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, icd, ablation is thought to be the appropriate therapy, performed, time of eps, exact location, type, the arrhythmia determined so that specific therapy, applied appropriately, arrhythmia, originate from any area, the heart's electrical conduction system, sick sinus syndrome occurs, the sa node, the heart malfunctions, wolff-parkinson-white syndrome happens, have an extra electrical pathway avoidance, the normal path, the av node, ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, 2 arrhythmias that occur, muscle cells, in the ventricles inappropriately take over the electrical activity, the heart, procedure, very safe, risks, arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, trauma, vein, low blood pressure, infection, cardiac tamponade, embolism, blood clots developing, tip, the catheter, bleeding, a catheter ablation performed, same time to treat the arrhythmia.