Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: A Practical Guide

Description

Offering a clear and consistent framework for recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide range of cardiac arrhythmia disturbances, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: A Practical Guide covers the fundamental analytical skills needed in this challenging area. This portable, highly accessible handbook focuses on the basics of clinical electrophysiology— how and when to perform an electrophysiology study as well as principles of ablation and other invasive therapies—all in a succinct and modern format.

Key Features

• Focuses on using an effective, consistent, decision-making process in recognizing, diagnosing, and treating rhythm disturbances of the heart, including supraventricular tachycardias, atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardias, and other rapid or irregular heartbeats.
• Covers anatomic fundamentals of cardiac structures, clinical indications for electrophysiology studies, practicalities and methodology of performing an electrophysiology study, and problems encountered during the procedure.
• Includes quick clinical summaries and more than 180 illustrations: electrophysiology recordings, ECGs, cardiac anatomy, radiographic images, and electroanatomic maps.
• Discusses key topics such as mechanisms of arrhythmias, conventional and electroanatomic mapping systems, fundamentals of cardiac mapping, biophysics of catheter ablation, and much more.
• Offers real-world guidance on contemporary practice from leading cardiac electrophysiologists Drs. Demosthenes G Katritsis and Fred Morady, with input from a multinational team of electrophysiology fellows and cardiologists.
• Ideal as a stand-alone resource or used in conjunction with Dr. Douglas Zipes’ renowned textbook, Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1. Classification of Arrhythmias
2. Chapter 2. Electrophysiologic Mechanisms of Arrhythmogenesis
3. Normal excitation of the heart
4. Mechanisms of arrhythmias
5. Chapter 3. Cardiac Anatomy for the Electrophysiologist
6. Left Atrium
7. Right Atrium
8. Right and Left Ventricle
9. Cardiac Valves
10. The Conduction System
11. Chapter 4. Vascular Access and Catheters
12. Patient Preparation
13. Epicardial access
14. Catheter Placement
15. Exposure to Radiation During EP Procedures
16. Chapter 5. Electrophysiology Hardware
17. Electrode catheters
18. Sheaths
19. Electrogram Recording and Processing
20. Pacing
21. Chapter 6. Basic Intervals and Atrial and Ventricular Conduction Curves
22. Basic Intervals
23. AV Conduction Curves
24. VA conduction Curves
25. Chapter 7. Electroanatomic Mapping and Robotic Navigation
26. Electroanatomic Mapping Systems
27. Robotic Navigation
28. Chapter 8. Physics of Ablation
29. Radiofrequency ablation
30. Cryoablation
31. LASER Ablation
32. Pulsed Field Ablation
33. Stereotactic Cardiac Radioablation
34. Chapter 9. Investigation of Bradycardias
35. Sinus Bradycardia
36. Atrioventricular Block
37. Atrioventricular Dissociation
38. Intraventricular Block
39. Electophysiologic Testing for the Investigation of Bradycardias
40. Chapter 10. Differential Diagnosis of Narrow-QRS Tachycardias
41. Regular Narrow-QRS (=120 ms) Tachycardias
42. Irregular Narrow-QRS (=120 ms) Tachycardias
43. Chapter 11. Differential Diagnosis of Wide-QRS Tachycardias
44. Regular Wide-QRS (>120 ms) Tachycardias
45. Irregular Wide-QRS (>120 ms) Tachycardias
46. Chapter 12. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Atrial Tachycardias
47. Atrial Premature Beats
48. Sinus Tachycardias
49. Focal Atrial Tachycardia
50. Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia
51. Macro-reentrant Atrial Tachycardias
52. Chapter 13. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
53. Definitions and Classification
54. Electrophysiologic Mechanisms
55. Diagnosis
56. Catheter Ablation
57. Chapter 14. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Atrioventricular Junctional Tachycardias
58. Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
59. Non-reentrant Junctional Tachycardias
60. Junctional Ectopic Beats
61. Chapter 15. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Atrioventricular Tachycardias
62. Definitions
63. Electrophysiology and classification of accessory pathways
64. Diagnosis
65. Risk stratification in patients with asymptomatic preexcitation
66. Catheter ablation
67. Chapter 16. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardias
68. Definitions
69. Electrophysiologic Mechanisms
70. Diagnosis
71. Electrophysiology Testing
72. Catheter ablation
73. Clinical Forms of Ventricular Arrhythmias
74. Short TOC:
    1. Chapter 1. Classification of Arrhythmias
    2. Chapter 2. Electrophysiologic Mechanisms of Arrhythmogenesis
    3. Chapter 3. Cardiac Anatomy for the Electrophysiologist
    4. Chapter 4. Vascular Access and Catheters
    5. Chapter 5. Electrophysiology Hardware
    6. Chapter 6. Basic Intervals and Atrial and Ventricular Conduction Curves
    7. Chapter 7. Electro-Anatomic Mapping and Robotic Navigation
    8. Chapter 8. Physics of Ablation
    9. Chapter 9. Investigation of Bradycardias
    10. Chapter 10. Differential Diagnosis of Narrow-QRS Tachycardias
    11. Chapter 11. Differential Diagnosis of Wide-QRS Tachycardias
    12. Chapter 12. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Atrial Tachycardias
    13. Chapter 13. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
    14. Chapter 14. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Atrioventricular Junctional Tachycardias
    15. Chapter 15. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Atrioventricular Tachycardias
    16. Chapter 16. Diagnosis and Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardias

Authors Biography

Demosthenes G Katritsis, MD, PhD, FRCP, FESC, FACC, Director, Department of Cardiology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece; Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, St Thomas Hospital London, UK; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Fred Morady, MD, McKay Professor of Cardiovascular Disease, Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan