Fifth edition
edited by Kenneth A. Ellenbogen
Fully revised and updated, Cardiac Pacing and ICDs, 5th edition offers a greater focus on ICDs and CRT devices, with shortened bibliographies, improved figures and additional examples and tables, ensuring that this book is even better than the last edition.
As with the last edition, the chapters are organized in the sequence of the evaluation of an actual patient, making it an effective and practical guide.
Features include:
- Many completely new and updated chapters
- New information on ICDs and CRT devices
- Many additional and updated illustrations
- New tables and flow charts to emphasize key concepts
- Updated information based on new AHA/ACC and HRS guidelines
Contents
- Indications for permanent and temporary cardiac pacing
- Basic concepts of pacing
- Hemodynamics of cardiac pacing and pacing mode selection
- Temporary cardiac pacing
- Techniques of pacemaker implantation and removal
- Pacemaker timing cycles
- Evaluation and management of pacing system malfunctions
- The implantable cardioverter defi brillator
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy
- ICD follow-up and troubleshooting
- Follow-up assessments of the pacemaker patient
Index