Cardiac Pacemakers Step-by-Step: An Illustrated Guide

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

• ISBN13: 9781405140652
• ISBN10: 1405140658
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• 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

What is a Pacemaker?

Recording Pacemaker Activity

Fundamentals of Electricity

Ventricular Stimulation

Pacing Leads

Sensingùbasic Concepts

Sensingùadvanced Concepts

Basic Pacemaker Electrocardiography

Other Single Chamber Pacemakers

DDD Pacemakersùbasic Functions

DDD Pacemakersùupper Rate Response

Atrioventricular Interval

Retrograde Ventriculoatrial Synchrony in Dual Chamber Pacemakers

All Dual Chamber Pacemakers Function in the DDD Mode

Types of Lower Rate Timing

Atrial Capture

Automatic Mode Switching

Pacemaker Radiography

Oversensing

Troubleshooting

Pacemaker Hemodynamics and Rate-adaptive Pacing

Pacemaker TachycardiasùPart 1

Pacemaker TachycardiasùPart 2

Treatment of Tachycardia

Pacemaker Interference

Biventricular Pacing

Pacemaker Follow-up

Conclusion

Text: overview of cardiac pacemakers

Index

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