Handbook of Cardiac Electrophysiology (2^nd Ed.) Second Edition

The second edition of this bestseller provides a practical, user-friendly manual guiding the theory and practice of cardiac electrophysiology. The handbook provides the specialist in training with a thorough grounding procedures, and clinical findings for clinicians. It provides a review of the main kinds of arrhythmia with illustrations of typical ECG findings supported where appropriate by correlative imaging. It also details the principal diagnostic and therapeutic procedures include implantation of pacemakers, resynchronization therapy, and ablation techniques.

Key Features

• Provides concise, user friendly guide to the equipment, procedures and clinical findings with which EPs need to be familiar
• Delivers alternatives resource to the flagship titles available in this field - idea for those beginning training or seeking an update
• Presents extensively updated material to enhance comprehension
• Includes new treatments and devices for electrophysiologists trained to perform interventional cardiac electrophysiology studies (EPS) as well as surgical device implantations

BASIC EP LABORATORY SETUP AND EQUIPMENT. Device Lab Set-Up. Organization of The Arrhythmia Lab. Holter and Event Monitor Laboratory Setup. BRADYARRHYTHMIA. Bradycardia. Indications For Permanent Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYARRHYTHMIA. Atrial Flutter. Atrial Fibrillation. VENTRICULAR TACHYARRHYTHMIA. Genetically Determined Ventricular Arrhythmias. Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia. SYNCOPE. Syncope Events, Definitions, Causes, and Features. Syncope Management Facilities. Syncope Management and Diagnostic Testing. DEVICE PROCEDURES. Implantation of Pacemakers and ICDs. Left Ventricular Lead Implantation For Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. Extraction of Devices. PERFORMING BASIC EP STUDIES. Venous and Arterial Access, EP Catheters, Positioning of Catheters. Basic Intracardiac Intervals. Basics of Electrophysiology Study. Head-Up Tilt (HUT) Table Testing. CATHETER ABLATION TECHNIQUES. Ablation of SVT (AVNRT and AVRT). Management and Ablation of Atrial Flutter. Radiofrequency Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. Ventricular Arrhythmias in the Structurally Normal Heart. Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Fibrillation and Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia. Mapping and Catheter Ablation of Postmyocardial Infarction Ventricular Tachycardia (VT): A Substrate-Based Approach. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy And Ventricular Arrhythmias. Ultrasound in the Electrophysiology Lab. Left Atrial Appendage Closure. ECG Features of Normal Heart PVCs. Epicardial Access and Indications. ECG-Based Origin of Atrial Flutter.

Andrea Natale

Dr. Andrea Natale is the Executive Medical Director of Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center, Austin, Texas and the EP National Medical Director for HCA Healthcare. He is the Editor-in-Chief of JICE and remains a leader of JAFIB, President of Venice Arrhythmia and Director of several courses and summits.

Oussama Wazni

Oussama Wazni, MD, is currently the Section Head of Electrophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic. He specializes in electrophysiology with special interest in atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia and complex device management.
Dr. Wazni is principal investigator in several ongoing research studies related to device management, atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia ablation, genetics of ventricular tachycardia, and long term follow-up after AF ablation.

Kalyanam Shivkumar

Dr. Shivkumar is a physician scientist who serves as the director of the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs (since its establishment in 2002). His is a graduate of the UCLA STAR Program (class of 2000) and his field of specialization is interventional cardiac electrophysiology. He leads a large group at UCLA (comprising a diverse group of fifteen faculty members, several trainees and sixty staff + allied health professionals) involved in clinical care, teaching, research and biomedical innovation. Currently Dr. Shivkumar oversees a 15-university NIH consortium on neural control of the heart.

Francis E. Marchlinski, MD

Dr. Marchlinski is the Richard T and Angela Clark President’s Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Director of Electrophysiology, University of Pennsylvania Health Care System and the Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored or co-authored over 450 original scientific articles and over 200 book chapters/reviews