Emergent Treatment of Arrhythmias Associated With Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome Background: Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is a congenital cardiac abnormality that manifests itself as a conduction irregularity found between the sinoatrial (SA) and atrioventricular (AV) nodes.  In an otherwise healthy heart, electrical conduction begins at the SA node, which is located in the right atrium.  An electrical pulse is then sent downward causing the atrium to contract and subsequently reaching the AV node, which acts as the connecting [...]

The Living Systematic Review: An Answer to Knowledge Translation? Note: An edited version of this post has been featured on MedPage Today. As much as it is may be difficult to ignore the fact that traditional systematic reviews and meta-analyses are full of flaws, they have become the bread and butter for not only the purposes of referencing, but also the very basis of why most of us clinicians practice the way we that we do. It [...]