Fundamental Approaches to the Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias

This new edition provides up-to-date comprehensive coverage of the rapidly evolving field of clinical cardiac electrophysiology. It is designed for physicians, cardiologists, cardiac electrophysiologists, and allied professionals practising or learning the speciality of clinical cardiac electrophysiology. This textbook - written entirely by two practising authorities in the field - offers a cohesive and comprehensive summary of the principles and practice of clinical cardiac electrophysiology. The authors emphasize the clinical approach to the patient and provide a fundamental, yet thorough, discussion of the primary therapeutic modalities used today in a state-of-the-art electrophysiology laboratory, including the latest pharmacotherapy options, catheter ablation treatment, and the newest implantable devices. The authors provide the reader with a concise, organized discussion of the management of patients with benign to life-threatening arrhythmias using the newest concepts, equipment, and techniques of diagnostic and therapeutic electrophysiology. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Functional Anatomy and Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias....Pages 1-20 Basic Principles of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology....Pages 21-89 Principles of Pharmacotherapy and Antiarrhythmic Drugs....Pages 91-130 Principles of Electrode Catheter Ablation....Pages 131-171 Principles of Pacemaker Therapy....Pages 173-285 Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy....Pages 287-416 Diagnosis and Acute Management of Patients with Symptomatic Bradyarrhythmias....Pages 417-428 Diagnosis and Acute Management of Patients with Symptomatic Tachyarrhythmias....Pages 429-452 Disturbances of Sinoatrial Node Function....Pages 453-467 Disturbances of Atrioventricular Conduction....Pages 469-486 Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia....Pages 487-537 Ventricular Preexcitation Syndromes: The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Variants....Pages 539-608 Atrial Tachycardias and Atrial Flutter....Pages 609-656 Atrial Fibrillation....Pages 657-685 The Spectrum of Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia....Pages 687-730 Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia and Long QT Syndromes....Pages 731-761 Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death....Pages 763-792 Back Matter....Pages 793-804