Fundamental Approaches to the Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias

Preface. Acknowledgments. Functional Anatomy and Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias. Basic Principles of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. Principles of Pharmacotherapy and Antiarrhythmic Drugs. Principles of Electrode Catheter Ablation. Principles of Pacemaker Therapy. Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy. Diagnosis and Acute Management of Patients with Symptomatic Bradyarrhythmias. Diagnosis and Acute Management of Patients with Symptomatic Tachyarrhythmias. Disturbances of Sinoatrial Node Function. Disturbances of Atrioventricular Conduction. Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia. Ventricular Preexcitation Syndromes: The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Variants. Atrial Tachycardias and Atrial Flutter. Atrial Fibrillation. The Spectrum of Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia. Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia and Long Qt Syndromes. Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death. Index.