Essential Cardiac Electrophysiology: With Self-Assessment

by Zainul Abedin (Texas Tech Univ. Health Sciences Center, and Univ. of Texas at El Paso); Robert Conner

• ISBN13: 9781405172295
• ISBN10: 1405172290
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This concise collection of electrophysiological facts prepares you to face the clinical questions surrounding arrhythmia and conduction disorders with confidence. Clear and direct, the book offers:succinct factual information supported by illustrations, tables, and references self-assessment questions for each chapter, to test your knowledge of the areaEssential Cardiac Electrophysiology summarizes the fundamental information that forms the basis of the modern approach to cardiac arrhythmias, from an explanation of the electrophysiologic effects of cardiac ion channel activity to the latest information on available implantable defibrillators. All members of the cardiac care team will benefit from keeping this valuable guide close at hand.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Ions, channels, and currents.

Potassium channels and currents

Sodium channels and currents

Calcium channels and currents

Electrophysiologic effects of cardiac autonomic activity

Adrenergic receptors

Cholinergic receptors

Purinergic receptors

Mechanisms of arrhythmias

Sinus node dysfunction and AV blocks

Supraventricular tachycardia.

Atrial flutter

Atrial tachycardias

Atrial fibrillation

Automatic junctional tachycardia

AV node reentry tachycardias

AV reentrant tachycardia

Differential diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia

Ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.

Ventricular tachycardia in the presence of coronary artery disease

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy ARVD/C

Ventricular arrhythmias in hypertrophic and dilated ardiomyopathy

Long QT syndrome and Torsade de Pointes

Brugada syndrome

Ventricular tachycardia in structurally normal heart

Bundle branch reentry ventricular tachycardia

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia

Miscellaneous forms of ventricular arrhythmias

Sudden cardiac death and risk stratification

Cardiac arrhythmias in patients with neuro-muscular disorders

Syncope

Pharmacologic therapy of arrhythmias.

Pharmacologic principles as applied to antiarrhythmic drugs

Antiarrhythmic drugs

Beta blockers

Class III antiarrhythmic drugs

Calcium channel blockers

Adenosine

Digoxin

Electrical therapy for cardiac arrhythmias.

Cardioversion defibrillation

Pacemakers

Implantable defibrillators

Self-assessment answers.

Index

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