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Robert Schaller

@rdschaller

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Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania • Associate Professor • Atheist • All Opinions are Mine

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Robert Schaller
4 years
Trumps departure note to Biden:
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@DGlaucomflecken The saltine has neither the density nor cracker integrity for that journey; subjecting the finger to PB plunge. The graham cracker, split in half, held halfway down, provides the necessary support, but have no illusions, the situation is still tenuous.
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Amazing tweet 💥
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RV pacing is DEAD. Learn CRT. “Done!” CRT is DEAD. Learn HBP. “Oh...OK. Done!” HBP is DEAD. Learn LBBP. “Really? Got it. Done!” LBBP is DEAD. But there’s this guy in Turkey... 🤦🏻‍♂️
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If You Know You Know #EPeeps
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4 years
OK. New favorite clip. Hall of fame worthy. Take a bow.
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7 months
PVC back after sheaths pulled #EPeeps
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Robert Schaller
5 years
Kids got a new toy. Honestly, did *NOT* see that coming...
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Robert Schaller
7 months
Dual Chamber Aveir from Abbott with ICE-guidance targeting the mouth of the RAA. Love it. Controlled, safe implant. Very exciting option for some patients #EPeeps
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Robert Schaller
2 years
Natural progression of every #EPeeps who does LBBAP: 1. It’s impossible I can’t do it 😣 2. Is this it? 🫣 3. Got it 😁 4. I LOVE this 😝 5. I’m quite literally the best on earth 🥱
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Robert Schaller
2 years
“Patient ate” Lab staff:
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Robert Schaller
6 years
After lead extraction #Candida
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Robert Schaller
6 years
What cardiac procedure did this patient have?
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Robert Schaller
2 years
On way to HRS. Sacrifices have been made.
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Robert Schaller
4 years
Registration is now open for our 1st Annual Technical Aspects of Lead Extraction Symposium on April 10th. Exciting agenda & first class faculty! It is a virtual CME course that is FREE! Please join us. #Epeeps
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4 years
👸🏼👸🏻👸🏽👸🏾👸🏿
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Robert Schaller
3 years
“This lead will take 6-8 turns” Me:
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Robert Schaller
3 years
The @BIOTRONIK_US LBBAP lead goes in crazy easy
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Robert Schaller
2 years
Short Tweetorial of a recent case based on this tweet. @EJSMD @MelbourneEPdoc @amankhaji12
@EJSMD
Edward J Schloss MD
2 years
@MelbourneEPdoc Snowplowing is common cause for inability to advance sheath. Might be confused with other issues such as lead calcification. Sometimes can't tell until we pull the lead out. For snowplow size up. For calcium, switch to mechanical. Any tips on how to differentiate? @rdschaller
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Robert Schaller
5 years
Before and after ECG of an 86 M dying of HF now back in the gym. Which therapy helped the most: DCCV? PVC suppression with Amio? His bundle pacing?
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Robert Schaller
3 years
Nice way to get access via 🎈
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Robert Schaller
1 year
EP if the cup was moving
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Tan-Lucien Mohammed, MD, FACR
1 year
Interventional radiology 🫖
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Robert Schaller
4 years
Traction on this pacemaker lead shows that it is attached to the SVC
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Robert Schaller
4 years
EP Bernie
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Robert Schaller
6 years
LV Summit PVC suppressed from 3 distinct sites but continually recurred. Ultimately needed simultaneous unipolar RFA from LV Endo and GCV. Weaker than Bipolar? @True_EP @DoctorPhillEP @Zo_EP2 @andreanatalemd @DrRoderickTung
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1 year
Please join us for this exciting LBBAP program during HRS. Friday, May 19 at 7 pm at the Hilton in the Grand Ballroom. #EPeeps
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Robert Schaller
2 years
When LBBAP fails and a perfect CS lead take seconds
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Robert Schaller
6 years
Roses are red, Violets are blue, ⁦ @Hisdoc1 ⁩ came to visit, Impaled the His with a screw
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Robert Schaller
3 years
🙏🏼😈
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1 year
@EJSMD @ABIMcert Just good old-fashioned fun thank you @ABIMcert
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Robert Schaller
3 years
There are 3 reasons why a pocket infection would be uniquely bad for this patient. Can you identify them? #EPeeps
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4 years
EP awaiting cors
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Robert Schaller
9 months
Removing a LINQ
@beyoncegarden
𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚
9 months
name something harder than this😭
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Robert Schaller
3 years
If EPs were interviewed at the end of really long cases
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9 months
Big news dropping... #EPeeps
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Robert Schaller
3 years
Calipers still essential
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Robert Schaller
5 years
Massive circumflex infarct with ZERO respect for the ECG!
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Robert Schaller
7 years
“ICE-Guided” Extraction
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Robert Schaller
4 years
Normal heart. Where was the incessant VT ablated from?
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Robert Schaller
3 years
VT Symposium this Friday and Saturday. Premier VT/VF conference hosted by @PennCardiology and @MountSinaiHeart 💥FREE 💥Please join us. #EPeeps
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Robert Schaller
3 years
for best results place heart monitor in middle of ripped 8 pack
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Robert Schaller
5 years
Nurse calls: “Sheaths are in and decas are up” Me:
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Robert Schaller
4 years
@medburnbook Is that a new effusion?
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Robert Schaller
4 years
Kids gave it a shot
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Robert Schaller
3 years
Happy 13th ya old man 🎊
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Robert Schaller
2 years
The small, broad, fractionated atrial "SP potential" found at the upper inner lip of the anterior CS os. Great place to burn for one and done AVNRT ablations. Anyone agree? #EPeeps @BushKelvin
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Robert Schaller
4 years
Absolute no-brainer for couple’s Halloween 2021
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Robert Schaller
4 years
Wait for it
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Robert Schaller
2 years
Fellow struggling with access can you c...
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Robert Schaller
2 years
LBBAP has solidified V1 as the best lead don't @ me #EPeeps
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Robert Schaller
10 months
I will continually ask ChatGPT to make this Cardiac EP more curious for the #EPeeps on HRS abstract weekend (in the style of @garrettscott )
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Robert Schaller
4 years
Pretty cool DIY
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Robert Schaller
2 years
@drjohnm “My intuition explains a causal relationship…” is quite the vibe
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Robert Schaller
2 years
“How fast do you turn a LBBAP lead?” Me:
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Robert Schaller
3 years
Unreal
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Robert Schaller
6 years
Catching a steam pop on the pap with ICE #miracle #PVCgone
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Robert Schaller
6 years
Seriously contemplating being the first person ever to buy “gogo inflight WiFi” to hear CABANA results.
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Robert Schaller
3 years
Recommend living together first -Reviewer #2
@dralanburguete
Alan Burguete-Torres M.D.
3 years
Who said romance is dead?
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Robert Schaller
3 years
Favorite tweet of all time and it's kinda not close...
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Room Rater
3 years
Decent brick set up. Good flower placement. Add more light. 8/10 @rdschaller
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Robert Schaller
7 years
That moment when you deploy the Perclose and then see a clinical PVC...
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Robert Schaller
7 years
Pretty rare (and lucky) to get so close to an AIV PVC from the RVOT.
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Robert Schaller
6 years
Tough case of intramural scar and VT requiring ablation from RV, LV, EPI, MCV. Almost had to send to @jskoruth for the needle.
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Robert Schaller
10 months
With the master at the @Medtronic “Build a 3830 Lead” Program at the manufacturing facility in sunny Puerto Rico. FYI: They are made by hand 😳
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Robert Schaller
5 years
@dredcronin @HRSonline Traditional morphologies IMO are: RCC: (+) in 1 with less R wave in V1 R/L: (+) then (-) in 1 with notch on downstroke of V1 LCC: (-) in 1 and “W” pattern in V1
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Robert Schaller
6 years
@SchakrabartiEP @gautamsand @JRWinterfield @DrRoderickTung @narrowQRS @DoctorPhillEP @drrakeshg1 This morphology in V1 is highly specific for pap. If superiorly directed = PM. If inferiorly directed = AL. Will be presenting our data at HRS.
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Robert Schaller
2 years
TALES2023 is 4 days away (Sat, 3/11). Kutalek, Epstein, Pinski, Ellenbogen, Carrillo, and many more of the brightest stars in lead management/extraction. Please join us. We are committed to making it Free, Virtual, CME.
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Robert Schaller
5 years
To the EP who thought of putting an ablation catheter in the freaking AORTA to start burning PVCs..........respect.
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Robert Schaller
6 years
Just passin’ through...
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Robert Schaller
3 years
Please join us again for TALES 2022! Even better agenda this year 🚨 FREE 🚨Virtual! 🚨 Technical Aspects of Lead Extraction • Management • How To • Case Review • Superstar Faculty #EPeeps 🤛
@PennCardiology
Penn Cardiology
3 years
#EPeeps : Mark your 🗓️ for the 2nd Annual Technical Aspects of Lead Extraction Symposium on March 12! This free CME will provide up-to-date practices and emerging concepts for cardiac implantable electronic device management. Register 👉 @rdschaller
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Robert Schaller
3 years
@DGlaucomflecken I would kindly direct you to the product densities. I assume you favor the British Stone, yes? #CrackerTwitter has been oddly quiet tonight. @nabisco you wanna weigh in here?
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Robert Schaller
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🚨TALES 2023🚨 coming March 11. Absolute Banger of a program with world class faculty - a who's who of lead experts. Extraction, Management, Diagnosis, Imaging, and more. FREE, VIRTUAL, CME🗣️ #EPeeps please join us and register @
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Robert Schaller
2 years
@AMussigbrodtMD @EPeeps_Bot @narrowQRS @SergioRichterMD @drjohnm No easy answer but appealing to do this conservatively. Takes effort and experience. Have to debride tissue, remove sutures sleeves, change generator, irrigate like crazy, scrub leads, bury system under the muscle with Tyrx, compartmentalize best you can, then chronic Abx.
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Robert Schaller
5 years
@Keurig quarantine fun #COVID -19
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Robert Schaller
4 years
During internship, if you had to put an IV in someone’s foot, you were a badass...😳
@DoctorGaldamez
Mario Martínez-Galdámez
4 years
Transorbital endovascular embolization of a dural carotid-cavernous fistula. Thank you to @FelipeTrivelato @mts_rezende @neuroabud for showing us so many technical details during years 🇧🇷 🇪🇸
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"Snare over snare" Extraction Technique
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3 years
Crazy good upcoming conference with guest lectures from @drjohnm @netta_doc @jskoruth @DJ_Lakkireddy @Zo_EP2 @docwhitman and special talk from the voice of our generation @DGlaucomflecken . Please join us at
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Robert Schaller
6 years
@DGlaucomflecken 10-years ago, a doctor aimed a laser at my eyeballs. 5-minutes later, I could see. Like a hawk can see. Like a young, young hawk. No matter how many lives I purport to save, I will never match the miracle performed by that doctor. That tan, well-rested, impeccably-dressed doctor.
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Robert Schaller
4 years
@JesseMulligan Schaller 2020: Now Let’s Go Brush Our Teeth
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Robert Schaller
5 years
This is why it is a bad idea to use central access. Lead encased in bone.
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Robert Schaller
7 years
At grocery store: Wife: Let’s get whole grain Me: Why? Wife: That’s what Pinkers would get Me: Who? Wife: That guy you talk to online Me: Sergio Pinski??? Wife: That’s him Me: How do you even know him? Wife: Cause you don’t shut up Me: Whole grain it is
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Robert Schaller
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@EJSMD “What do you do?” “I’m an electrophysiologist” “A what?” “You know. Like pacemakers and stuff.“ “But I thought...” “I do ablations. AF? VT?! You know?” “But you ARE a doctor, right?” “Yes, mom. I’m a doctor...”
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Robert Schaller
4 years
Seen during intra-operative LV lead threshold testing in a patient with a lateral infarct. Anyone seen this before?
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Robert Schaller
3 years
See you all tomorrow at 10 am for the TALES Lead Extraction Symposium. 700 registrants thus far! #EPeeps Some heavy hitters 👇
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Robert Schaller
5 years
@CMTschabrunn @drjohnm @PennMedicine Great job by @PennMedicine leadership to cancel all elective cases/clinics. We remain fully prepared to perform all urgent and emergent cardiac procedures.
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Robert Schaller
2 years
The girl waited extra to get a white pumpkin to paint. Then made it orange.
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Robert Schaller
1 year
After I quickly block a CTI for the first time in weeks #EPeeps
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Robert Schaller
3 years
Dad level unlocked
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Robert Schaller
7 years
Patient awake, talking
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Robert Schaller
5 years
This + Bacteremia = Bad News
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Robert Schaller
4 years
😂🤣 “Is that your bible?” “It’s a bible”
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