Table of Contents:
  • Integrated heart failure management
  • Pathobiology of left ventricular dyssynchrony and resynchronization
  • Electrical assessment of the failing heart
  • Mechanical assessment of the failing heart
  • Clinical trials and response to CRT therapy
  • Implantation of a CRT device
  • Programming the CRT device
  • Troubleshooting CRT devices and clinical outcomes
  • Non-CRT pacing in the failing heart : limiting ventricular pacing and searching for alternate pacing sites
  • Non-CRT pacing in the failing heart : cardiac contractility modulation (CCM)
  • Clinical outcomes and chronic management of device patients
  • Future directions in pacing to support the failing heart.