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Record Nr.

UNINA9910138295703321

Autore

Vonend Oliver

Titolo

Aspects of pacemakers : functions and interactions in cardiac and non-cardiac indications / / edited by Oliver Vonend, Siegfried Eckert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

IntechOpen, 2011

[Place of publication not identified] : , : InTech, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

953-51-6488-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Disciplina

616.12028

Soggetti

Cardiac intensive care

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Outstanding steps forward were made in the last decades in terms of identification of endogenous pacemakers and the exploration of their controllability. New "artificial" devices were developed and are now able to do much more than solely pacemaking of the heart. In this book different aspects of pacemaker - functions and interactions, in various organ systems were examined. In addition, various areas of application and the potential side effects and complications of the devices were discussed.