Chapter 66 Heart Rate Variability and Heart Rate Turbulence Iwona Cygankiewicz, Wojciech Zareba Heart Rate Variability Heart rate variability (HRV) refers to beat-to-beat changes in R-R intervals and is believed…
Chapter 36 Electrocardiography of Cardiac Pacing Shakeeb Razak, Raymond Yee, Andrew D. Krahn, Allan C. Skanes, Lorne J. Gula, George J. Klein, Peter Leong-Sit Although the evaluation of permanent pacemakers…
Chapter 14 Fundamental Concepts in Defibrillation Nipon Chattipakorn, Raymond E. Ideker Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major health problem in developed countries.1 Most deaths are believed to be caused…
Chapter 34 Cardiac Pacing Modes and Terminology Jose F. Huizar, Karoly Kaszala, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen Pacemakers have the capability of sensing intrinsic cardiac activity and responding to sensed events depending…
Chapter 80 Antiarrhythmic Drugs Dobromir Dobrev, Bramah N. Singh There has been a considerable change in recent years in the role of antiarrhythmic drugs, and a number of factors have…
Chapter 63 Genetic Diseases Brugada Syndrome Begoña Benito, Pedro Brugada, Josep Brugada, Ramon Brugada Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major cause of mortality in the Western world, with an…
Chapter 54 Genetics and Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes Jeffrey A. Towbin, Matteo Vatta, Hua Li, Neil E. Bowles Cardiac arrhythmias are major causes of morbidity and mortality, including sudden cardiac death…
Chapter 68 Q-T Interval, QT Dynamicity, and QT Variability Wojciech Zareba, Iwona Cygankiewicz, Antonio Bayes de Luna The last 2 decades have witnessed increasing research in the field of cardiac…
Chapter 13 Fundamentals of Cardiac Stimulation Rahul Mehra, Paul Belk In the past few decades, the scientific basis and the technology of electrical stimulation of the heart has advanced significantly…
Chapter 55 Ventricular and Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias Associated with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Barry J. Maron, Iacopo Olivotto, Franco Cecchi Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic cardiac disease with a particularly heterogeneous clinical…
