Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation and Resynchronization
A Clinical Approach

Presenting a large amount of information in an easily digestible form, this improved and updated second edition provides sensible, matter-of-fact methods for understanding and caring for patients with permanent pacemakers, ICDs and CRT systems, making everyday clinical encounters easier and more productive.

Consisting of 13 chapters, this book is uniformly written to provide sensible, matter-of-fact methods for understanding and caring for patients with permanent pacemakers, ICDs and CRT systems. Now improved and updated, including a new chapter on programming and optimization of CRT devices, this second edition presents a large amount of information in an easily digestible form. Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation offers sensible, matter-of-fact methods for understanding and caring for patients, making everyday clinical encounters easier and more productive. Readers will appreciate the knowledge and experience shared by the authors of this book.

Contributors, vii Preface, ix 1 Clinically Relevant Basics of Pacing and Defibrillation, 1 T. Jared Bunch, David L. Hayes, Paul A. Friedman 2 Hemodynamics of Device Therapy, 43 David L. Hayes, Paul A. Friedman, Samuel J. Asirvatham 3 Indications for Pacemakers, ICDs and CRT, 82 Apoor S. Gami, David L. Hayes, Paul A. Friedman 4 Generator and Lead Selection, 121 Samuel J. Asirvatham, David L. Hayes, Paul A. Friedman 5 Implantation and Extraction Techniques, 144 David L. Hayes, Paul A. Friedman, Samuel J. Asirvatham 6 Implantation-related Complications, 202 David L. Hayes, Paul A. Friedman 7 Pacemaker and Cardiac Resynchronization Timing Cycles and Electrocardiography, 234 David L. Hayes, Paul J. Wang, Samuel J. Asirvatham, Paul A. Friedman 8 Programming, 300 David L. Hayes, Charles D. Swerdlow, Paul A. Friedman 9 Rate-adaptive Pacing, 380 David L. Hayes, Samuel J. Asirvatham 10 Troubleshooting, 401 Paul A. Friedman, Charles D. Swerdlow, David L. Hayes 11 Pacemaker, ICD and CRT Radiography, 517 David L. Hayes, Paul A. Friedman 12 Electromagnetic Interference and Implantable Devices, 550 David L. Hayes, Paul A. Friedman 13 Follow-up, 572 David L. Hayes, Niloufar Tabatabaei, Michael Glikson, Paul A. Friedman Index, 617