Handbook of Cardiac Arrhythmia
Published on 1. July 1996
Book
Hardback
459 pages
978-0-683-06909-9 (ISBN)
Description
This handbook is taken from the larger textbook "Cardiac Arrhythmia - Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Management", and serves as an abbreviated clinical review of cardiac arrhythmias covering all aspects of arrhythmia mechanism and management.
This handbook is taken from the larger textbook "Cardiac Arrhythmia - Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Management", and serves as an abbreviated clinical review of cardiac arrhythmias covering all aspects of arrhythmia mechanism and management.
This handbook is taken from the larger textbook "Cardiac Arrhythmia - Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Management", and serves as an abbreviated clinical review of cardiac arrhythmias covering all aspects of arrhythmia mechanism and management.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
121 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
640 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-683-06909-9 (9780683069099)
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Content
Techniques for arrhythmia assessment in management - holter monitoring, exercise testing, invasive cardiac electrophysiology studies; therapeutic modalities - pharmacologic principles of antiarrhythmic drugs, class 1 antiarrhythmic drugs, beta blockers, amiodarone, sotalol and bretylium, other antiarrhythmic drugs; aggravation of arrhythmia by antiarrhythmic drugs, pacemakers for bradyarrhythmias, catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias, the implantable cardioverter defibrillator; arrhythmias - normal sinus rhythm and its variants (sinus arrhythmia, sinus tachycardia, sinus bradycardia), sinus node re-entry and sinus node dysfunction, atrial tachycardia, atrial fibrillation/flutter, atrio ventricular node and atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardias and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, ventricular premature beats and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, Torsades de Pointes and other forms of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, sudden cardiac death/ ventricular fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia - diagnosis and etiology; conduction abnormalities; syncope.