Understanding Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: A Conceptually Guided Approach

Editor/Author Spector, Peter
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $90.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $135.00
ISBN: 978-1-118-90549-4
Category: Health & Medicine - Medicine
Image Count: 119
Book Status: Available
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In the fast paced world of clinical training, students are often inundated with the what of electrophysiology without the why. This new text is designed to tell the story of electrophysiology so that the seemingly disparate myriad observations of clinical practice come into focus as a cohesive and predictable whole.

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Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Third-person omniscient (how we would see EP if we could see EP)
  • Preface
  • Ion channels
  • Action potentials
  • Propagation
  • Arrhythmia mechanisms
  • Anatomy for electrophysiologists
  • Doctor's-eye view (dealing with incomplete knowledge)
  • Preface
  • Deducing anatomy
  • Electrical activity, electrodes, and electrograms
  • Electrogram analysis: understanding electrogram morphology
  • Differential diagnostic pacing maneuvers
  • Electro-anatomic mapping
  • What we measure when we record an electrogram
  • Afterword: Your heart is a computer: from army ants to atrial fibrillation
  • Suggested reading