Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation provides sensible, matter-of-fact methods for understanding and caring for patients with permanent pacemakers and ICDs.

Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation helps the reader understand the technical capabilities of pacemakers and ICDs, and shows how to apply this knowledge to make everyday clinical encounters easier and more productive.

Not intended as an encyclopedic text, Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation offers a large amount of information in an easily digestible form.

Contents

1. Clinically Relevant Basics of Pacing and Defibrillation
2. Hemodynamics of Pacing
3. Indications for Pacing/ICD
4. Generator and Lead Selection
5. Implantation Techniques
6. Pacing Timing Cycles and Pacemaker Electrocardiography
7. Programming
8. Rate-Adaptive Pacing
9. Troubleshooting
10. Complications
11. Pacemaker and ICD Radiography
12. Electromagnetic Interference and Implantable Devices
13. Follow-up

Index

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