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

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.

"Overall, this is a good introductory book to ICD implantation and the relevant science behind its use." (Doody's Reviews, June 2009)

Roland X. Stroobandt, MD, PhD, 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

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