Group information

The Arrhythmia Unit of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos was created in December 2000 and belongs to the Cardiovascular Institute of this hospital. The cardiologists in the group are accredited by the Spanish and European Society of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology and are members of the Spanish and European Societies of Cardiology.

Three of them are members of the Communications Selection Committee for the SEC and ESC Congresses and reviewers of articles for the following scientific journals: RevEspCardiol, Medicina Clínica, Europace, J CardiovascElectrophysiol, HeartRhythm, EurHeart J, JACC.

In addition, Dr. Pérez-Villacastín is a reviewer of the AF ablation guidelines. HeartRhythm Journal.

The scientific activity of the group has been reflected in more than 100 publications in national and international journals and books (first signatories of papers published in Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology), more than 200 publications in the form of abstracts in national, European, and American congresses, more than 200 national and international conferences on cardiological topics and preferably on the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.

On the other hand, the members of the group have participated as researchers in more than 25 multicentre studies and in more than 30 privately funded projects.

There are currently 5 projects of competitive funding under development, 2 of which are from the Health Research Fund (FIS) of the Instituto Carlos III. There are also 3 privately funded self-developed projects. In addition, the group participates in 7 competitive multicentre clinical trials, in 2 of which Dr. Pérez-Villacastín is the national coordinator. The group also contributes to national and international registries for arrhythmia ablation, implantable devices and the EURObservational Research programme of the European Society of Cardiology.