The last decade has seen an explosion in the therapeutic options available for the management of cardiac arrhythmias. As a result, the focus of electrophysiology training has turned toward acquiring the technical skills necessary to perform catheter ablation and complex device implantation and away from the diagnostic skills required for arrhythmia management.
Our goal in writing this book is to provide a succinct and practical clinical approach to the major arrhythmia disorders encountered in the clinic as well as the electrophysiology laboratory. We have focused on the clinical history, electrocardiogram and diagnostic electrophysiology study. More comprehensive texts are available, which delineate the details of diagnostic and therapeutic invasive electrophysiology studies. We hope it will prove equally useful to the internist evaluating syncope, the cardiologist deciding if a pacemaker is needed during a myocardial infarction complicated by complete heart block, and the electrophysiology fellow learning how to differentiate the various forms of supraventricular tachycardia in the electrophysiology laboratory.
Our goal in writing this book is to provide a succinct and practical clinical approach to the major arrhythmia disorders encountered in the clinic as well as the electrophysiology laboratory. We have focused on the clinical history, electrocardiogram and diagnostic electrophysiology study. More comprehensive texts are available, which delineate the details of diagnostic and therapeutic invasive electrophysiology studies. We hope it will prove equally useful to the internist evaluating syncope, the cardiologist deciding if a pacemaker is needed during a myocardial infarction complicated by complete heart block, and the electrophysiology fellow learning how to differentiate the various forms of supraventricular tachycardia in the electrophysiology laboratory.
As is true for most fields of medicine there is as much art as there is science in electrophysiology. We and the contributing authors to this book share a common “style” of arrhythmia management and passion for the clinical care of patients with arrhythmia disorders, which we hope will prove helpful to physicians caring for these fascinating patients.
Peter J. Zimetbaum, Mark E. Josephson
- Chapter 1 Anatomy in Clinical Electrophysiology
- Chapter 2 Cellular Electrophysiology
- Chapter 3 Mechanism of Tachycardias
- Chapter 4 The Basic Electrophysiology Study
- Chapter 5 Basic Principles in Clinical Electrophysiology
- Chapter 6 Atrial Fibrillation
- Chapter 7 Atrial Flutter
- Chapter 8 Supraventricular Tachycardia
- Chapter 9 Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Variants
- Chapter 10 Ventricular Tachycardia
- Chapter 11 Bradycardias
- Chapter 12 Syncope
- Chapter 13 Sudden Death Syndromes
- Chapter 14 Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Indications
- Chapter 15 Permanent Pacemakers
- Chapter 16 Clinical Management of Patients with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
- Chapter 17 Noninvasive Diagnostic Testing
- Chapter 18 Antiarrhythmic Drugs
- Index
About the Authors
- Peter J Zimetbaum MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
- Mark E Josephson MD, Herman C. Dana Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Cardiovascular Division, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Academic Officer of the Cardiovascular Institute of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Director, Harvard.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (October 8, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0781766036
- ISBN-13: 978-0781766036
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.8 x 10.5 inches
List Price: $132.95