The new edition of Clinical Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation presents the current standards of pacing and defibrillation for the clinical cardiac electrophysiologist. This book encompasses all of the new devices and management strategies for cardiac electrophysiologists interested in pacing. The world authorities on pacing and devices for cardiac care have contributed to make this new full color edition the most practical yet.

• Addresses the management of patients with a broad range of conditions, including sinus node disease, carotid sinus hypersensitivity, tachyarrhythmias, heart failure, and more.
• Details cardiac pacing in pediatric patients.
• Illustrates vital concepts and techniques with over 745 x-rays and figures.
• Explains how to approach pacemaker generator changes.
• Reviews fundamental concepts such as how to pace the heart and how leads, power sources, programmers, and electronic circuitry work.

Section 1 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DEVICE THERAPY

Chapter 1---Cardiac Electrical Stimulation

Chapter 2---Principes of Defibrillation: Cellular Physiology to fields and waveforms

Chapter 3---Sensing and Arrhythmia Detection by implantable devices

Chapter 4---Engineering and construction of pacemaker and defibrillation leads

Chapter 5: Sensors in implantable devices-incldues information on chronotropic incompetence

Chapter 6---Power sources for implantable devices

Chapter 7---Pacemaker/ICD Circuitry/Remote Telemetry

Section 2 CLINICAL CONCEPTS

Chapter 8---Device Nomenclature

Chapter 9---Basic Physiology and Hemodynamics of Cardiac Pacing, including ventricular contraction and resynchronization

Chapter 10---Clinical Trials of Bradycardia Pacing

Chapter 11---Clinical Trials of Defibrillator Therapy

Chapter 12---Clinical Trials of Resynchronization Therapy

Chapter 13---Pacing for Sinus Node Disease; including pacing for prevention of atrial tachycarrhythmias

Chapter 14---Pacing for Conduction System Disease

Chapter 15---Pacing for Neurally Mediated Syndromes (CSH, et al.)

Chapter 16---Sensor Driven Pacing: Device Specifics: Activity, Accelerometers, MV, QT

Chapter 17---Defibrillation testing, including ATP and preventive pacing

Section 3 Implantation Techniques

Chapter 18---Implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators

Chapter 19---Implantation of the left ventricular lead

Chapter 20---Approach to Pulse Generator Changes

Chapter 21---Management of Implant Complications

Chapter 22---Techniques and devices for lead extraction

Chapter 23---Radiography of implantable devices

Section 4 DEVICE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY

Chapter 24---Timing Cycles of Implantable Devices

Chapter 25---Pacemaker Troubleshooting and follow-up (no BiV PM)

Chapter 26---ICD Troubleshooting and follow-up (no BiV ICD)

Chapter 27---Troubleshooting, follow-up and programming of BiV devices (including echo optimization)

Chapter 28---Follow-up, and interpretation of implantable syncope monitors

Chapter 29---EMI and Implantable Devices

Chapter 30---Pediatric Pacing and Implantable Defibrillator Therapy

By Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, Kontos Professor of Medicine, Director, Clinical Electrophysiology Section, VCU School of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia Hospital, Richmond, VA, USA; Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Director, Cardiac Pacing and Tachyarrhythmia Devices, Director: Clinical Electrophysiology Research, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA; G. Neal Kay, MD, Director, Clinical Electrophysiology Section, Division of Cardiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; and Chu Pak Lau