DESCRIPTION:
While bringing into focus the major advances in cardiac pacing over the last 5-6 years this book places particular emphasis on new techniques for the treatment of congestive heart failure. Other topics include new and unusual indications for pacemakers, the clinical aspects of expanding pacemaker memory and stored electrograms in the diagnosis of arrhythmias, automatic mode switching, the pacemaker/ICD interface, complex pacemaker electrocardiography and advances in pacemaker follow-up. This book will be a valuable resource for those involved in the care of patients with implanted devices.
CONTENTS:
Part I: Implantation and Explantation
1. Implantation Techniques for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
2. Pacing in Vasovagal Syncope: Are too Many or too Few Pacemakers Implanted?
3. Unusual Indications for Cardiac Pacing
4. Pacing for Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: Fact or Fancy?
5. Extraction of Pacing and Defibrillation Leads: Current Concepts and Methods
Part II: Multisite Pacing in Heart Failure
6. Multisite Pacing for Heart Failure: from Electrophysiology to Hemodynamics
7. Ventricular Resynchronization: Predicting Responders
8. Electrocardiography of Multisite Ventricular Pacing
9. Arrhythmias of Biventricular Pacemakers and ICDs
Part III. Advances in Technology
10. Left Ventricular Stimulation: Epicardial, Transvenous or Endocardial?
11. Permanent and Temporary Single-Lead VDD and DDD Pacing: State of the Art
12. Pacemaker Memory: Basic Concepts and New Technology
13. Future Trends in Pacemaker Technology
Part IV. Pacemaker Follow-Up
14. Diagnosis of Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias by Automatic Mode Switching Algorithms of Dual Chamber Pacemakers
15. Pacemaker Memory: Diagnosis of Atrial Tachyarrhythmias
16. Diagnostic Algorithms for the Detection of Ventricular Tachycardia by Implanted Pacemakers
17. Evaluation of the Pacing Function of Dual- and Triple-Chamber ICDs
18. Complexity of Follow-up in Multisite Pacing
19. Electromagnetic Interference with Implantable Cardiac Devices
