Implantable Cardioverter – Defibrillators Step by Step – An Illustrated Guide
An Illustrated Guide
Samenvatting
∗ A step–by–step look at a growing and difficult to understand area
∗ Covers important aspects of ICD therapy with full–page illustrations, accompanying text and representative ICD recordings
∗ An accompanying CD is also available
∗ Useful for all health care workers involved with ICD patients
Specificaties
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Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Illustrations.
1. Cardiac tachyarrhythmias.
2. Indications.
3. ICD hardware Battery, capacitors and leads.
4. ICD implantation.
5. Sensing and detection.
6. SVT/VT discrimination.
7. ICD therapies.
8. ICD timing cycles.
9. Complications of ICD therapy.
10. Follow–up of ICDs.
11. Troubleshooting.
12. Special ICD functions and resynchronization therapy.
13. ICD function with emphasis on stored electrograms.
Representative examples 1 to 65.
Text.
1. Cardiac tachyarrhythmias.
2. Indications for ICD.
3. ICD hardware.
4. ICD implantation and lead systems.
5. Sensing and detection of ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation.
6. SVT/VT discrimination.
7. ICD therapies.
8. Timing cycles of ICDs.
9. Complications of ICD therapy.
10. ICD follow–up.
11. Troubleshooting.
12. Cardiac resynchronization.
13. Appendix A: American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/European Society of Cardiology: 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Death.
14. Appendix B: American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/Heart Rhythm Society: 2008 Guidelines for ICD and CRT.
Index.