Device Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure

✍ Scribed by Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, Bruce L. Wilkoff, G. Neal Kay

Publisher: Saunders
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 330
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The field's foremost authorities offer guidance on the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and pacemakers for the management of congestive heart failure. They explain how these devices work; examine the patient-and device-selection process; review implant techniques, and outline aftercare. This concise resource makes this complex subject easy to understand.Discusses patient selection as well as aftercare.Features practice guidelines and techniques for implanting all new devices.Offers an outstanding review of cardiovascular anatomy.Provides an overview on the prognosis for congestive heart failure, and clinical rationales for the selection of device therapy.Reviews the results of clinical trials.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Dedication......Page 3
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Epidemiology and Prognosis of HeartFailure......Page 11
Pathophysiology of Cardiac Dyssynchrony and Resynchronization......Page 37
Clinical Trials of Resynchronization Therapy......Page 57
Clinical Pacemakers Trials in Systolic Cardiac Dysfunction: Nonresynchronization......Page 102
Trials of Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators(ICDs) in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure(Nonbiventricular)......Page 114
Anatomy and Implantation Techniques for Biventricular Devices......Page 128
Troubleshooting and Programming of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy......Page 242
Programming Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy......Page 304
Index......Page 321

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