Chapter 69 Ambulatory Electrocardiography Long-Term Monitors and Event Recorders Robert W. Rho, Richard L. Page Palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, syncope, and other intermittent arrhythmic events pose a diagnostic challenge…
Chapter 85 Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Indications, Management of Complications, and Device Follow-up Sanjeev Saksena, Rangadham Nagarakanti, Nandini Madan, Mark Preminger The widespread use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) worldwide has resulted in…
Chapter 86 Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure Physiological Basis, Technology, Indications, and Management Sanjeev Saksena, Bharat K. Kantharia, Angelo Auricchio, Helmut Klein Over the past decade, treatment of…
Chapter 46 Ventricular Fibrillation Introduction, Principles of PracticePaul Dorian, Etiology and PathologySaroja Bharati, EpidemiologyRobert J. Myerburg, Basic ElectrophysiologyDavid Rosenbaum, Kara J. Quan, Mariah L. Walker, Clinical ElectrocardiographyBruce D. Lindsay, Diagnostic…
Chapter 94 Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Techniques, Indications, and Outcomes Pasquale Santangeli, Luigi Di Biase, J. David Burkhardt, Javier Sanchez, Rodney Horton, G. Joseph Gallinghouse, Shane Bailey, Jason…
Chapter 28 Electrophysiological Evaluation of Atrial Fibrillation Sanjeev Saksena, Nicholas D. Skadsberg Introduction Atrial fibrillation (AF), one of the earliest arrhythmias described, is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in humans…
Chapter 31 Pacing Technology and Its Indications Advances in Threshold Management, Automatic Mode Switching, and Sensors Chu-Pak Lau, Chung-Wah Siu Since the first endocardial pacing lead implantation in 1958, pacemaker…
Chapter 32 Pacemaker Insertion, Revision, and Extraction Mark H. Schoenfeld It would be too ambitious an undertaking to address in a single chapter such diverse pacemaker themes as implantation, revision,…
Chapter 51 Electrocardiographic Manifestations of the Athlete’s Heart and Management of Arrhythmias in the Athlete Sanjay Sharma, John Rawlins, William J. McKenna Introduction Participation in regular physical exercise confers well-established…
Chapter 74 Assessment and Treatment of Fetal Arrhythmias Janette F. Strasburger, Bettina F. Cuneo The assessment and management of the human fetus with an arrhythmia is an area of medicine…
