This book is useful for physicians taking care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias and includes six chapters written by experts in their field.
- Chapter 1 discusses basic mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias.
- Chapter 2 discusses the chronobiological aspects of the impact of apnoic episodes on ventricular arrhythmias.
- Chapter 3 discusses navigation, detection, and tracking during cardiac ablation interventions.
- Chapter 4 discusses epidemiology and pathophysiology of ventricular arrhythmias in several noncardiac diseases, methods used to assess arrhythmia risk, and their association with long-term outcomes.
- Chapter 5 discusses the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias including indications for implantation of an AICD for primary and for secondary prevention in patients with and without congestive heart failure.
- Chapter 6 discusses surgical management of atrial fibrillation.