Cardiac Pacemakers Step by Step

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 Chamber Pacemakers

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

"This book provides crystal clear explanations of pacing and timing intervals, programming, hysteresis, and all practical aspects of pacing. Each point is covered in one or more full page diagrams which combine ECGs with cartoons. The emphasis is only clarity, and although it starts by assuming no prior knowledge of pacing in fact all aspects end up being covered to a very high level. This is quite different from any other pacemaker manuals, and very strongly recommended. All the points covered in the 289 separate full page layouts are then summarised in 38 pages of concise text and tables." Cardiology News, June/July 2005 (volume 8, number 5)

Comments sent to Commissioning Editor on 11/10/05 Regarding Pacemakers Step by Step:

"Everyone that I have spoken to who has checked out this book has only positive things to say and all were very impressed by the book. Our library copies are usually always checked out and it is sometimes difficult to get people to return this title on time! Because of the positive feedback when employees come in to get a basic book on pacemakers this is the first title I direct them to, because they will be able to understand it, no matter what kind of science background they have, even if this science background is none.

Once again, it is a great book and we are very happy to have it in our library for our employees."
-- Liberty Gooler, Associate Librarian, Library & Resource Center, 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, we sometimes 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 book were reasonably priced it would be a standard item for every cath and EP lab nurse and technician, every first year cardiology fellow, most practicing cardiologists whose contact with pacing is haphazard at best and certainly, for everyone of