"Cardiac Defibrillation" ed. by Damir Erkapic, Tamas Bauernfeind

This book, reviews the actual guidelines and gives practical advices concerning of indications in cardiomyopathy patients, possible contraindications and complications, the perioperative management including anticoagulation and antibiotics, and the programming and follow-up of defibrillator devices.

Sudden cardiac death and ventricular arrhythmia play a prominent role in mortality in our era. One of the biggest milestones in the therapy of ventricular arrhythmias was the invention of cardiac defibrillation.
There were several important developments in the last decades, making nowadays automated external and internal defibrillators widely available. However, the rapid evolution and high differentiation of available options presents a challenge to be kept "up-to-date".

Contents
Preface
Section 1 External Cardiac Defibrillation
1 Principles of External Defibrillators
Section 2 Principals of Internal Cardiac Defibrillation
2 Defibrillation and Cardiac Geometry
Section 3 Worth Knowing About Indication, Long-Term Benefit, Challenges, and Monitoring of ICD Therapy
3 Sudden Death in Ischemic Heart Disease
4 Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention: What Guidelines Don't Tell
5 Long-Term Benefit and Challenges of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy
6 ICD in the Era of Telecardiology
Section 4 ICD Implantation Procedure
7 ICD and PM Implantation Procedure: Relevant Periprocedural Issues
8 Defibrillator Threshold Testing
Section 5 Tipps and Tricks in ICD Programming
9 Tachycardia Discrimination Algorithms in ICDs
10 Current Issues in ICD SVT-VT Discrimination: Pacing for SVT-VT Discrimination