The subspecialty of Cardiology known as electrophysiology has seen explosive growth over the last few decades in large part because of a massive expansion in the suite of procedures now offered to patients. It used to be that electrophysiologists would spend the majority of their careers implanting pacemakers and defibrillators, but the last 2 decades saw an explosion in electrophysiology procedures known as ablations. Ablations essentially involve burning cardiac tissue in a strategic manner to get rid of arrhythmias that may be afflicting a particular patient. The path humans took from first taking an electrical picture of the heart with a surface ECG to putting catheters into the heart to map and treat dangerous arrhythmias is one of the great achievements of the modern era.
That is thing is not a sub-specialty in the commonly understood sense. They are just mechanics. If not, everything is a sub-specialty - like para-legal; stealing only jewels; etc
The law of growth at work.
That is thing is not a sub-specialty in the commonly understood sense. They are just mechanics. If not, everything is a sub-specialty - like para-legal; stealing only jewels; etc
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