Practical Intracardiac Echocardiography in Electrophysiology

by Jian-Fang Ren (University of Pennsylvania); Francis E. Marchlinski (University of Pennsylvania); David J. Callans (University of Pennsylvania); David Schwartsman (versity of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh)

• ISBN13: 9780470994962
• ISBN10: 0470994967
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Tremendous advances in intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) have coincided with the evolution of interventional electrophysiology.This book is designed to provide both the electrophysiologist and echocardiographer with an in-depth view of the role and value of ICE during electrophysiologic procedures. A guide to techniques used for optimal ICE imaging in cardiac electrophysiology is provided. In addition, new and less-recognized uses of ICE in electrophysiological procedures are described and their clinical applications are presented.Illustrated with over 500 images, many of which are in color, the book can also be used as a practical atlas. Readers need not be experts in the field of echocardiography to benefit from this practical approach to intracardiac imaging in electrophysiology.

Table of Contents

List of contributors. Preface. Introduction (Jerry Suls and Kenneth A. Wallston). Part I: Models of Health/Risk Behavior and Behavior Change. 1. Healthy Lifestyle across the Life-Span: The Heck with the Surgeon General (Howard Friedman). 2. Exploring the links between risk perceptions and preventive behavior (Neil Weinstein). 3. Communicating about Health: Message Framing, Persuasion and Health Behavior (Peter Salovey and Duane Wegener). 4. The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model: A General Social Psychological Approach to Understanding and Promoting Health Behavior (William A. Fisher, Jeffrey D. Fisher, and Jennifer J. Harman). 5. A Social Reaction Model of Adolescent Health Risk (Frederick X. Gibbons, Meg Gerrard, and David J. Lane). 6. Affect, Thought and Protective Health Behavior: The Case of Worry and Cancer Screening (Kevin McCaul and Amy Boedicker Mullens). 7. Social-Cognitive Factors in Health Behavior Change (Britta Renner and Ralf Schwarzer) . Part II: Social-Cognitive Processes in Health. 8. Common Sense Models of Illness: Implications for Symptom Perception and Health-Related Behaviors (Ren_ Martin, Nan Rothrock, Howard Leventhal, and Elaine Leventhal). 9. Contributions of Social Comparison to Physical Illness and Well-Being (Jerry Suls). 10. Interpersonal Emotional Processes in Adjustment to Chronic Illness (Robert F. DeVellis, Megan A. Lewis, and Katherine Regan Sterba). 11. The Social, Linguistic and Health Consequences of Emotional Disorder (James Pennebaker). 12. Affiliation, Social Support and Biobehavioral Responses to Health (Shelley E. Taylor, Laura C. Klein, Tara L. Gruenewald Regan A.R. Gurung, and Sara Fernandes-Taylor). Part III: Personality and Health. 13. Toward a Social Psychophysiology of Cardiovascular Reactivity: Interpersonal Concepts and Methods in the Study of Stress and Coronary Disease (Timothy Smith, Linda Gallo and John Ruiz). 14. Gender-Related Traits and Health (Vicki Helgeson). 15. Self-Regulatory Processes and Responses to Health Threats: Effects of Optimism on Well-Being (Michael Scheier and Charles Carver). Part IV: Adaptation to Stress and Chronic Illness. 16. The Influence of Psychological Factors on Restorative Function in Health and Illness (Ashley W. Smith and Andrew Baum). 17. Coping and Adjustment in Rheumatoid Arthritis (Craig A. Smith, Kenneth A. Wallston, and Kathleen A. Dwyer). 18. Daily Processes in Health and Illness (Howard Tennen, Glenn Affleck and Stephen Armelli). 19. Scenes from a Marriage: The Coupling of Support, Coping and Gender within the Context of Chronic Illness (Tracey A. Revenson). Index.