Chapter 33 Current Indications for Temporary and Permanent Cardiac Pacing Vasanth Vedantham, Nitish Badhwar In the past few decades, improvements in device technology and surgical techniques have made permanent pacemaker…
Chapter 21 The Electrophysiological Laboratory Technologic Advances and Future Development Sabine Ernst Introduction Crossover or hybrid laboratories were common in the early days of invasive electrophysiology (EP), when the electrophysiological…
Chapter 83 Anticoagulation in Atrial Arrhythmias Current Therapy and New Therapeutic Options Pamela S.N. Goldman, Michael D. Ezekowitz Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an independent risk factor for stroke and the…
Chapter 82 Non-antiarrhythmic Therapies for Cardiac Arrhythmias Prakash Deedwania, Joel A. Lardizabal Background Heart disease in any form may predispose the patient to the development of ventricular arrhythmias, some of…
Chapter 12 Principles of Clinical Pharmacology Jacques Turgeon, Paul Dorian Most antiarrhythmic drugs are administered in a relatively fixed dose, without taking into account the many sources of variability in…
Chapter 64 Genetic Diseases Short QT Syndrome N.A. Mark Estes, III, Nathan Van Houzen Short QT syndrome (SQTS) was recently recognized as a familial clinical electrocardiographic entity characterized by ion…
Chapter 60 Postoperative Arrhythmias After Cardiac Surgery David B. Bharucha, Babak Bozorgnia, Peter R. Kowey Arrhythmias occur frequently after cardiac surgery. This chapter discusses postoperative atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmias as…
Chapter 4 Mechanisms of Re-entrant Arrhythmias Sami F. Noujaim, José Jalife The most deadly cardiac arrhythmias result from re-entry, that is, electrical waves that rotate at a high frequency, in…
Chapter 56 Evaluation and Management of Arrhythmias Associated with Congestive Heart Failure Steven Singh Introduction Heart failure is characterized by a failure to pump an adequate volume of blood to…
