Clinical arrhythmology and electrophysiology; a companion to Braunwald's heart disease.9781416059981 Clinical arrhythmology and electrophysiology; a companion to Braunwald's heart disease. Issa, Ziad F. et al. Elsevier Health Sciences 2009 502 pages $199.00 Hardcover RC685 Three professors from Southern Illinois University Southern Illinois University, main campus at Carbondale; state supported; coeducational; est. 1869, opened 1874 as a normal school, renamed 1947. It has a center for archaeological investigation and a fisheries research laboratory. There is also a campus at Edwardsville. and Indiana University delve deeply into the diagnosis and treatment of clinical arrhythmias by integrating the electrophysiologic events that underlie the clinical events. The first five chapters of the medical textbook discuss testing and mapping techniques while the remaining 17 chapters focus on a specific tachycardia tachycardia: see arrhythmia. tachycardia Heart rate over 100 (as high as 240) beats per minute. When it is a normal response to exercise or stress, it is no danger to healthy people, but when it originates elsewhere, it is an arrhythmia. , flutter, fibrillation fibrillation /fi·bril·la·tion/ (fi?bri-la´shun) 1. the quality of being made up of fibrils. 2. a small, local, involuntary, muscular contraction, due to spontaneous activation of single muscle cells or muscle , or conduction abnormality. Illustrated with color images, each disease chapter describes its pathophysiology pathophysiology /patho·phys·i·ol·o·gy/ (-fiz?e-ol´ah-je) the physiology of disordered function. path·o·phys·i·ol·o·gy n. 1. , epidemiology, clinical symptoms, management principles, electrocardiographic electrocardiographic emanating from or pertaining to electrocardiography. electrocardiographic monitoring maintenance of a more or less continuous surveillance of a patient's cardiac status by means of electrocardiography. features, electrophysiological testing, and ablation. ([c]2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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