DESCRIPTION:
Consisting of 13 chapters, this book is uniformly written to provide sensible, matter-of-fact methods for understanding and caring for patients with permanent pacemakers, ICDs and CRT systems.
Now improved and updated, including a new chapter on programming and optimization of CRT devices, this second edition presents a large amount of information in an easily digestible form. Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation offers sensible, matter-of-fact methods for understanding and caring for patients, making everyday clinical encounters easier and more productive.
Readers will appreciate the knowledge and experience shared by the authors of this book.
CONTENTS:
1 Clinically Relevant Basics of Pacing and Defibrillation.
2 Hemodynamics of Device Therapy.
3 Indications for Pacemakers, ICDs and CRT.
4 Generator and Lead Selection.
5 Implantation and Extraction Techniques.
6 Implantation-related Complications.
7 Pacemaker and Cardiac Resynchronization Timing Cycles and Electrocardiography.
8 Programming.
9 Rate-adaptive Pacing.
10 Troubleshooting.
11 Pacemaker, ICD and CRT Radiography.
12 Electromagnetic Interference and Implantable Devices.
13 Follow-up.
