Cardiac Pace makers Setp by Step - An Illustrated Guide

Aimed at nurses, cardiology technicians, medical students and pacemaker companies for training their staff, this beginners book on cardiac pacing assumes a prior knowledge of electrocardiography, but nothing of cardiac pacing.

List of contents

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 Pacemakers--upper 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.

Conclusion.

Text: overview of cardiac pacemakers.

Index

Product details

• Authors: S. Serge Barold, Serge Barold, Serge S. Barold, Alfons F. Sinnaeve, R Stroobandt, Roland X. Stroobandt
• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2003
• EAN: 9781405116473
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-1647-3
• Dimensions: 220 mm x 276 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Blackwell Futura; Blackwell Futura
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine