Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Step by Step
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Step by Step
AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
Health care professionals now have a clear and concise overview of all relevant aspects of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. In the successful fomat established by Cardiac Pacemakers Step by Step, this handy paperback demystifies the devices that have revolutionized cardiac care.
Authored – not edited – for a smooth, easy-to-read presentation, the book uses:
* full-page illustrations in full color
* accompanying text
* representative ICD tracings
to explain important aspects of ICD therapy. Progressing from basic to more sophisticated topics, the authors concentrate on clinically useful material. All members of the patient care team will welcome this timely guide.
COMPANION WEBSITE
With this book you are given free access to a companion resources site.
www.wiley.com/go/icdstepbystep
* The website includes over 150 images taken from this book
* You are free to download these images and use them in your own presentations; details inside
BY THE SAME AUTHORS
Cardiac Pacemakers Step by Step: An Illustrated Guide
Table des matières
Preface.
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.
A propos de l’auteur
Roland X. Stroobandt, MD, Ph D, Professor of Medicine, Heart Center, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Department of Cardiology, A.Z. Damiaan Hospital, Ostend, Belgium
S. Serge Barold, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of South Florida Cardiology Division, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA
Alfons F. Sinnaeve, MD, Professor Emeritus of Electronic Engineering, Technical University KHBO, Department of Electronics, Ostend, Belgium
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