title: [GSTCVS certificate for cardiac pacemaker, ICD and CRT therapy].
abstract: Medical qualifications to perform operations with cardiac electronic implantable devices as well as for preoperative and postoperative therapy, including follow-up in this patient population are not well defined. Based on recommendations which have been worked out and published by an interdisciplinary consensus of cardiac surgeons, cardiologists and electrophysiologists, a certificate with three modules has been developed by the Working Group for Electrophysiologic Surgery of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (GSTCVS, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Thorax-, Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie, DGTHG). First examinations for this certificate will be held in 2013 and transitional regulations apply until 1st April 2014. Further details are available on the homepage of the GSTCVS.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung XVII - Herz-und Gefäßchirurgie, Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus, Koblenz, Deutschland. AndreasMarkewitz@bundeswehr.org
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Markewitz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Burger
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Osswald
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Israel
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Doll
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hemmer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beckmann
mesh_terms: D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000592:standards*; D002568:Certification / Q000592:standards*; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000592:standards*; D022062:Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac / Q000592:standards*; D005858:Germany; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation / Q000592:standards*