Main description:

Comprehensive, yet practical and concise, the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Pacemakers and ICDs is the ideal training guide on how to implant, follow-up, and troubleshoot pacemakers and ICDs. Fully updated to include new technologies such as subcutaneous ICDs and MRI compatible devices, this new edition provides the latest guidelines and management strategies for the cardiology trainee and cardiac technician.

Covering the principles, programming, potential complications, and troubleshooting for pacemakers, ICDs, and cardiac resynchronisation therapy, this title is an invaluable aid for anyone charged with providing or contributing to a pacing, ICD, or implantable loop recorder service. Written in a succinct bullet-point style, the second edition of the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Pacemakers and ICDs delivers key information in an accessible manner, with over 120 figures including x-rays
and annotated ECGs to demonstrate pacing techniques and troubleshooting solutions.

Contents:

1: Pacemaker principles
2: Permanent pacemaker implantation
3: Pulse generator replacement
4: Pacemaker complications
5: Pacemaker programming and device interrogation
6: Troubleshooting
7: Temporary cardiac pacing
8: Implantable loop recorder
9: ICD principles
10: ICD implantation
11: ICD programming
12: Troubleshooting ICDs
13: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT)
14: System and lead extractions
15: Device clinic and follow-up
16: Lifestyle issues, patient concerns, and devices
17: Perioperative management of devices