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Nadia Sorensen

Nadia Sorensen, RN, CCRN, is a cardiac procedural nurse in a hospital electrophysiology lab in Tempe, Arizona. Over 16 years in nursing, she spent time on a cardiac step-down unit before her current clinical post. Her routine work includes readying patients for catheter ablations and collaborating with device representatives during routine pacemaker and defibrillator interrogations.

What Is an External Pacemaker and When Is It Used?Procedures
What Rhythms Do You Cardiovert? AFib, SVT & More Tests
What Is External Pacing and How Does It Work?Procedures
How Soon Can You Fly After Cardiac Ablation?Heart & Lungs
What Should You Not Do With a Loop Recorder?Procedures
Does a Pacemaker Help With Atrial Flutter?Heart & Lungs
What Is aVF in an ECG and What Does It Show?Tests
Is a Cardiac Ablation Considered Surgery?Procedures
What Is the PR Segment on an ECG and What Does It Mean?Tests
Is Pacemaker Surgery Dangerous for the Elderly?Procedures
How Safe Is Ablation for the Elderly?Procedures
How Is Tachycardia Treated: From Drugs to Ablation Heart & Lungs
What Are the 5 Lethal Cardiac Rhythms?Heart & Lungs
What Does Atrial Fibrillation Look Like on an ECG?Tests
How Often Do Pacemaker Leads Need to Be Replaced?Procedures
How to Put On Your Heart Monitor Leads Tests
Is Cardiac Arrest and Asystole the Same Condition?Heart & Lungs
What Should You Not Do After Cardioversion?Procedures
Is a Defibrillator Used for Atrial Fibrillation?Tests
Has Anyone Actually Died From Heart Ablation?Procedures
Who Should Not Have an Ablation Procedure?Procedures
Which Leads Are Anterior on an ECG & What They Show Tests
Can You Go Into Cardiac Arrest With a Pacemaker?Heart & Lungs
Do You Need a Pacemaker After Ablation?Procedures
How to Treat Atrial Flutter: From Medication to Ablation Heart & Lungs
How to Turn Off a Pacemaker With a Magnet After Death Procedures
What Is a Loop Monitor? How This Heart Device Works Procedures
What Is MACE in Medical Terms? Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events Tests
What Are the New Drugs for Atrial Fibrillation?Drugs
How Long Does It Take to Implant a Pacemaker?Procedures