edited by Eckhard Alt, S. Serge Barold, Karl Stangl.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1993
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xii, 331 pages 160 illustrations)
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
The Evolution of Bradycardia Pacing --;I. Basic Concepts --;Hemodynamics of the Paced Heart --;Chronotropic Incompetence and Natural History of Sick Sinus Syndrome --;The Impact of Exercise Metabolism; Catecholamine Levels and Individual Fitness --;General Characteristics of Sensors Used in Rate-Adaptive Pacing: The Ideal Sensor Open- and Closed-Loop Concept --;Indications for Implanting Rate-Adaptive Cardiac Pacemakers --;II. Clinical and Functional Characteristics of Sensors Used for Rate-Adaptive Pacing --;Activity-Sensing Rate-Adaptive Pacing --;Respiration --;Intracardiac Pressure for Rate-Adaptive Pacing --;Mixed-Venous Oxygen Saturation --;Central Venous Blood Temperature --;The QT Interval --;Closed-Loop Rate-Adaptive Pacemaker Based on the Ventricular Evoked Response --;Impedance-Derived Cardiac Signals: Preejection Interval, Stroke Volume and Ventricular Peak Ejection Rate for Rate-Adaptive Pacing and Antitachyarrhythmia Devices --;Stroke Volume: A Hemodynamic Variable for Rate-Adaptive Pacing --;III. Electrocardiography of Rate-Adaptive Pacemakers --;Electrocardiography of Rate-Adaptive Dual-Chamber (DDDR) Pacemakers: Lower Rate Behavior --;Electrocardiography of Rate-Adaptive Dual-Chamber (DDDR) Pacemakers: Upper Rate Behavior --;IV. Clinical and Practical Aspects of Rate-Adaptive Pacing --;Is Rate-Adaptive Ventricular Pacing Already Obsolete? --;AAI and AAI-R Pacing: Clinical and Technical Aspects --;Follow Up of Patients with Rate-Adaptive Pacemakers --;New Problems with Rate-Adaptive Pacing: Limitations, Adverse Effects, and Interference --;Technical Improvement to be Achieved by the Year 2000: Leads and Connector Technology --;V. New Concepts in Rate-Adaptive Pacing --;Single-Lead Atrial Synchronous Pacing --;Automatic Pacemakers --;Combinations of Parameters --;Future Trends --;Visionary Concepts on Implantable Devices.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Rate Adaptive Cardiac Pacing provides a comprehensiveoverview of this most advanced form of stimulating the heartby means of cardiac pacemakers that vary the pacing rateaccording to the needs of the patients.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cardiology.
Heart -- Surgery.
Medicine.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
RC684
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P3
Book number
E358
1993
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Eckhard Alt, S. Serge Barold, Karl Stangl.