Cardiac Pacemakers Step-by-Step
An Illustrated Guide
Published on 8. May 2008
352 pages
978-1-4051-4065-2 (ISBN)
Description
Over the years we have heard many complaints that there is no verysimple book on cardiac pacing for real beginners. We have alsoheard that all the books on cardiac pacing are too complicated andimpossible to understand by beginners. Many have voiced the hopethat one day someone would write a book in the same style asDubin's book on basic electrocardiography which is a hugebestseller with well over a million sold in many languages. A'Dummy' book on cardiac pacing would appeal to nurses,cardiology technicians, medical students and pacemaker companiesfor training their staff.
We started with the assumption that the reader would know theprinciples of electrocardiography as in Dubin's book butnothing about cardiac pacing. We carefully studied the Dubin bookand believe that we have improved his teaching method. The bookconsists of numbered illustrations each illustrating a concept inthe form of a diagram drawn professionally. We have been careful tomake the artwork simple for easy comprehension.
Each illustration will occupy a page and have several lines oftext below it. We have already completed most of these. It isessential that there are all in color, this is a unique sellingpoint.
The 3 authors have had vast experience in the field. Dr Baroldhas published 10 books on cardiac pacing and wrote the section oncardiac pacing in the 4th and 5th Edition of Braunwald'sbook, Heat Disease."
S. Serge Barold, Roland Stroobandt and Alfons Sinnaeve
Content:
* * The plates depicting a concept with occupy 1 pages. Each plateconsists of a diagram and a short text.
* All diagrams are in color. In black and white they would losetheir teaching value
* There will be approx 200 plates.
* There will be approx 100 electrocardiograms.
* There will be a glossary, appendices and index
Reviews / Votes
"This book provides crystal clear explanations of pacing and timingintervals, programming, hysteresis, and all practical aspects ofpacing. Each point is covered in one or more full page diagramswhich combine ECGs with cartoons. The emphasis is only clarity, andalthough it starts by assuming no prior knowledge of pacing in factall aspects end up being covered to a very high level. This isquite different from any other pacemaker manuals, and very stronglyrecommended. All the points covered in the 289 separate full pagelayouts are then summarised in 38 pages of concise text andtables." Cardiology News, June/July 2005 (volume 8, number 5) Comments sent to Commissioning Editor on 11/10/05Regarding Pacemakers Step by Step: Everyone that I have spoken to who has checked out this book hasonly positive things to say and all were very impressed by thebook. Our library copies are usually always checked out and it issometimes difficult to get people to return this title on time!Because of the positive feedback when employees come in to get abasic book on pacemakers this is the first title I direct them to,because they will be able to understand it, no matter what kind ofscience background they have, even if this science background isnone. Once again, it is a great book and we are very happy to have it inour library for our employees. --Liberty Gooler, Associate Librarian, Library & ResourceCenter, St. Jude Medical, CRMD, 818-493-2152, 800-423-5611, ext.2152, 818-362-8142 (Fax) "... for those of us who have been involved with pacing, wesometimes overlook the obvious - after all, everyone knows'that'. But everyone does not know 'that'.We all have to start someplace and it seems to me that if this bookwere reasonably priced it would be a standard item for every cathand EP lab nurse and technician, every first year cardiologyfellow, most practicing cardiologists whose contact with pacing ishaphazard at best and certainly, for everyone of our new sales repsor TSRs and our Field Clinical Engineers." Paul A Levine MD St Jude Medical CRMDMore details
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Additional editions
S. Serge Barold | Roland X. Stroobandt | Alfons F. Sinnaeve
Cardiac Pacemakers Step-by-Step
An Illustrated Guide
Book
11/2003
1st Edition
Blackwell Futura
€61.90
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Content
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 ChamberPacemakers.
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
