Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias, Clinical Aspects of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy

by Fromer, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780879934118
• ISBN10: 0879934115
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-05
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy has now become a standard antiarrhythmic treatment, with the consequence that ICD technology is advancing apace. The ICD comes in increasingly smaller sizes, performs a greater range of pacing and defibrillation therapies, is supported by a range of diagnostics and telemetry, and very significantly, the ICD is now generally recognised as a more effective therapy for many arrhythmia patients than antiarrhythmic drugs such as amiodarone.The aim of the Clinical Approaches to Tachyarryhthmias series is to update the physician, cardiologist, and all those responsible for the the care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias. In this volume, Martin Fromer reviews the current status of the implantable defibrillator, recent technical developments, and indications for its use.

Author Biography

Martin Fromer is the author of Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias, Volume 9, Clinical Aspects of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Indications and Guidelines for ICD

Therapy ICD

Therapies Some Considerations

Related to the Debrillation

Threshold Work-Up Before ICD

Implantation ICD

Implantation Perioperative and Postoperative

Management of the ICD

Patient End Points in ICD Studies

Follow-up of Devices and Patients

Interaction of Pacemaker and ICD

ICD Trials: An Empiracally Effective

Therapy Has Found Scientific Grounds

Driving in ICD Patients

Future Outlook

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