A physician trained in Med-Peds can care for the newborn to the geriatric patient. Med-Peds prepares a physician well for private practice, academic medicine, hospitalist programs, and fellowships. Med-Peds is a versatile, exciting, and fulfilling career choice that we hope you will consider.
A bundle branch block is a defect of the bundle branches or fascicles in the electrical conduction system of the heart.
Bundle Branch Block. I found this great article written by Richard N. Fogoros, M.D., About.com Guide, November 26, 2003, that I reprint here: Causes, significance, and treatment. Bundle branch block (BBB) is a relatively frequent finding on the electrocardiogram (ECG). Sometimes BBB itself needs to be treated; sometimes it indicates significant underlying cardiac disease that needs to be treated; and sometimes it has so little significance that no treatment is necessary at all.