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Pacing options in the adult patient with congenital heart disease /

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Finally, this is a pacing book dedicated to the adult patient with CHD. Drawing on their vast experience, Drs. Mond and Karpawich join forces to show you what to do, how to do it, and what to avoid. Building on more than 60 years of device therapy, "Pacing Options in the Adult Patient with Cong...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mond, Harry G.
Other Authors: Karpawich, Peter P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Futura, 2007.
Subjects:
Congenital heart disease.
Adulthood.
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.
Heart Defects, Congenital > surgery
Adult
Cardiac Pacing, Artificial > methods
Defibrillators, Implantable
Heart Defects, Congenital
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Know the anatomy
  • Transvenous pacemaker implantation
  • The pulse generator or ICD pocket
  • Epicardial or epimyocardial pacing
  • Problems with right ventricular apical pacing
  • What type of lead fixation device do I use?
  • Consider steerable stylets or catheters
  • Safety in numbers, the belt and braces technique
  • Do old leads need extraction?
  • Stenosed venous channels
  • Use of the coronary venous system
  • Consider growth in teenagers
  • Congenital atrioventricular block
  • Congenitally corrected L-transposition of the great vessels
  • Congenital long QT syndromes
  • Atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale
  • Persistent left superior vena cava
  • Dextrocardia
  • Ebstein's anomaly
  • D-transposition of the great vessels
  • Septal defects including tetralogy of Fallot
  • Repaired Ebstein's anomaly
  • Univentricular heart.