Main description:

* A step-by-step look at a growing and difficult to understand area * Covers important aspects of ICD therapy with full-page illustrations, accompanying text and representative ICD recordings * An accompanying CD is also available * Useful for all health care workers involved with ICD patients

Contents:

Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Illustrations. 1. Cardiac tachyarrhythmias. 2. Indications. 3. ICD hardware Battery, capacitors and leads. 4. ICD implantation. 5. Sensing and detection. 6. SVT/VT discrimination. 7. ICD therapies. 8. ICD timing cycles. 9. Complications of ICD therapy. 10. Follow-up of ICDs. 11. Troubleshooting. 12. Special ICD functions and resynchronization therapy. 13. ICD function with emphasis on stored electrograms. Representative examples 1 to 65 . Text. 1. Cardiac tachyarrhythmias. 2. Indications for ICD. 3. ICD hardware. 4. ICD implantation and lead systems. 5. Sensing and detection of ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation. 6. SVT/VT discrimination. 7. ICD therapies. 8. Timing cycles of ICDs. 9. Complications of ICD therapy. 10. ICD follow-up. 11. Troubleshooting. 12. Cardiac resynchronization. 13. Appendix A: American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/European Society of Cardiology: 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Death . 14. Appendix B: American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/Heart Rhythm Society: 2008 Guidelines for ICD and CRT . Index.