Cardiac Pacemakers Step-by-Step: An Illustrated Guide

by S. Serge Barold; Roland X. Stroobandt; Alfons F. Sinnaeve

• ISBN13: 9781405116473
• ISBN10: 1405116471
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Over the years we have heard many complaints that there is no very simple book on cardiac pacing for real beginners. We have also heard that all the books on cardiac pacing are too complicated and impossible to understand by beginners. Many have voiced the hope that one day someone would write a book in the same style as Dubin's book on basic electrocardiography which is a huge bestseller with well over a million sold in many languages. A 'Dummy' book on cardiac pacing would appeal to nurses, cardiology technicians, medical students and pacemaker companies for training their staff.We started with the assumption that the reader would know the principles of electrocardiography as in Dubin's book but nothing about cardiac pacing. We carefully studied the Dubin book and believe that we have improved his teaching method. The book consists of numbered illustrations each illustrating a concept in the form of a diagram drawn professionally. We have been careful to make the artwork simple for easy comprehension.Each illustration will occupy a page and have several lines of text below it. We have already completed most of these. It is essential that there are all in color, this is a unique selling point.The 3 authors have had vast experience in the field. Dr Barold has published 10 books on cardiac pacing and wrote the section on cardiac pacing in the 4th and 5th Edition of Braunwald's book, Heat Disease." S. Serge Barold, Roland Stroobandt and Alfons SinnaeveContent: The plates depicting a concept with occupy 1 pages. Each plate consists of a diagram and a short text. All diagrams are in color. In black and white they would lose their teaching value There will be approx 200 plates. There will be approx 100 electrocardiograms. There will be a glossary, appendices and index

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
What is a pacemaker?	p. 1
Recording pacemaker activity	p. 2
Fundamentals of electricity	p. 10
Ventricular stimulation	p. 19
Pacing leads	p. 34
Sensing--basic concepts	p. 41
Sensing--advanced concepts	p. 60
Basic pacemaker electrocardiography	p. 73
Other single chamber pacemakers	p. 85
DDD pacemakers--basic functions	p. 88
DDD pacemakers--upper rate response	p. 106
Atrioventricular interval	p. 122
Retrograde ventriculoatrial synchrony in dual chamber pacemakers	p. 127
All dual chamber pacemakers function in the DDD mode	p. 140
Types of lower rate timing	p. 149
Atrial capture	p. 156
Automatic mode switching	p. 166
Pacemaker radiography	p. 174
Oversensing	p. 179
Troubleshooting	p. 184
Pacemaker hemodynamics and rate-adaptive pacing	p. 197
Pacemaker tachycardias	p. 225
Pacemaker tachycardias--Part 2	p. 231
Treatment of tachycardia	p. 235
Pacemaker interference	p. 239
Biventricular pacing	p. 246
Pacemaker follow-up	p. 255
Conclusion	p. 287
Text: overview of cardiac pacemakers	p. 291
Index	p. 329
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