This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. Otto Costantini, is devoted to Cardiac Arrhythmias. Articles in this important issue include: Basic principles of cardiac electrophysiology; The electrocardiogram: Still a useful tool in the primary care office; Palpitation: Extended electrocardiogram monitoring: Which tests to use and when; Inherited cardiac arrhythmias/channelopathies; Antiarrhythmic drugs: Benefits and risks; Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: Anticoagulants and/or devices; Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management of atrial fibrillation; Supraventricular tachycardia; Ventricular tachycardia with and without structural heart disease; Cardiac Devices: Pacemakers, Defibrillators and Biventricular Devices; Brady-arrhythmias; When is syncope arrhythmic?; Sudden Cardiac Death: Who is at risk?; and Arrhythmias and Congenital Heart Disease. A CME program is also available for this title.

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America provides general internists with the most essential timely information for the diagnosis and treatment of the pulmonary diseases that they see regularly. Topics covered include lung cancer, pleural diseases, interstitial lung disease, interventional pulmonology, asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, community-acquired pneumonia, eosinophilic lung diseases, hypoventilation syndromes, pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension, and sarcoidosis.

This issue of Chest Medicine Clinics focuses on Interventional Pulmonology, with topics including: Flexible bronchoscopy; Radiology for mediastinal lymph node station in lung cancer diagnosis and staging; Lung cancer screening; Early lung cancer detection; Palliative care and interventional pulmonology; Anesthesia for flexible and rigid bronchoscopy; Mediastinal and pulmonary pathology: Specimen collection and processing; Bronchial Thermoplasty: A nonpharmacological therapy for severe asthma; Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction; Malignant pleural effusion: From diagnostics to therapeutics; Intrapleural therapeutics; Percutaneous dilational tracheostomy; Tracheobronchial stenosis and Tracheobroncho malacia: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas; Pediatric interventional pulmonology; The Business of Bronchoscopy: How to set up an Interventional Pulmonology Program; Bronchoscopic therapies for peripheral lung malignancies; and Bronchial Thermoplasty: A nonpharmacological therapy for severe asthma.

This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine is Guest Edited by Ali Musani, MD, FCCP, FACP, at National Jewish Health and will focus on Interventional Pulmonology. Article topics include flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, trachael stenosis, gene therapy, airway stents, EBUS-TBNA / Staging of lung cancer, endobronchial ablative therapies, management of malignant pleural effusion, medical pleuroscopy, pleural and pulmonary ultrasound, and lung cancer screening.