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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830722303321

Autore

Barold S. Serge

Titolo

Cardiac pacemakers step by step [[electronic resource] ] : an illustrated guide / / S. Serge Barold, Roland X. Stroobandt, Alfons F. Sinnaeve

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Elmsford, N.Y., : Futura, c2004

ISBN

1-281-30884-6

9786611308841

0-470-79871-8

0-470-75072-3

1-4051-4065-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StroobandtR (Roland)

SinnaeveAlfons F

Disciplina

617.4120645

Soggetti

Cardiac pacemakers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

What is a pacemaker? -- Recording pacemaker activity -- Fundamentals of electricity -- Ventricular stimulation -- Pacing leads -- Sensing basic concepts -- Sensing advanced concepts -- Basic pacemaker electrocardiography -- Other single chamber pacemakers -- DDD pacemakers basic functions -- DDD pacemaker supper rate response -- Atrioventricular interval -- Retrograde ventriculoatrial synchrony in dual chamber pacemakers -- All dual chamber pacemakers function in the DDD mode -- Types of lower rate timing -- Atrial capture -- Automatic mode switching -- Pacemaker radiography -- Oversensing -- Troubleshooting -- Pacemaker hemodynamics and rate-adaptive pacing -- Pacemaker tachycardias, part 1 -- Pacemaker tachycardias, part 2 -- Treatment of tachycardia -- Pacemaker interference -- Biventricular pacing -- Pacemaker follow-up.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the years we have heard many complaints that there is no very simple book on cardiac pacing for real beginners. We have also heard that all the books on cardiac pacing are too complicated and impossible to understand by beginners. Many have voiced the hope that one day someone would write a book in the same style as Dubin's



book on basic electrocardiography which is a huge bestseller with well over a million sold in many languages. A 'Dummy' book on cardiac pacing would appeal to nurses, cardiology technicians, medical students and pacemaker companies for training their staff. We started