A practical approach to catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
Subtitle: Read http://adventuresincardiology.com
By: editors, Hugh Calkins, Pierre Jais, Jonathan S. Steinberg.
Contributors: Calkins, Hugh, 1956-; Jais, Pierre, 1964-; Steinberg, Jonathan S.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health; Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780781775595
Subjects: Catheter ablation; Atrial fibrillation -- Surgery; Atrial Fibrillation -- surgery; Catheter Ablation -- methods
Description: Read http://adventuresincardiology.com to see how it's really done.
Table of contents: title: Indications for atrial fibrillation ablation and consensus recommendations / Hugh Calkins; title: Nonpharmacological therapy for atrial fibrillation: an historical overview / David A. Spragg, Hugh Calkins; title: Equipment and staffing / David Haines; title: Preprocedure preparation / Jose F. Huizar ... [et al.]; title: Intracardiac ultrasound / Jonathan Steinberg ... [et al.]; title: Electroanatomic mapping systems / Anshul Patel, Vivek Y. Reddy; title: Magnetic and robotic navigation / Bruce Lindsay, Mitchell Faddis; title: Noncontact mapping / Satoshi Higa ... [et al.]; title: Circumferential ablation with PV isolation guided / by Lasso Cathete... [et al.]; title: Circumferential atrial ablation / Carlo Pappone, Vincenzo Santinelli; title: Electrogram-guided ablation / Evan Lockwood, Koonlawee Nademanee; title: Linear left atrial ablation / Mélèze Hocini ... [et al.]; title: Tailored approach to ablation / Hakan Oral, Fred Morady; title: Ablation of autonomic ganglia / Hiroshi Nakagawa ... [et al.]; title: Atrial fibrillation trigger mapping / Francis Marchlinski, Fermin Garcia; title: A comprehensive overview of ablation of paroxysmal, persistent, and permanent atrial fibrillation: a stepwise approach / Pierre Jais ... [et al.]; title: Emerging technologies / Suneet Mittal ... [et al.]; title: Identification and elimination of ancillary arrhythmias / Paolo Ferrero, Pietro Francia, Riccardo Cappato; title: Ablation procedure follow-up and definitions of success / Christopher Piorkowski, Gerd Hindricks, Hans Kottkamp; title: When and how to re-ablate / Michael Riley, David Callans; title: Postprocedural care after radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation / Alan Wimmer, Hakan Oral; title: Complications / Conor Barrett ... [et al.]; title: The challenges of monitoring outcomes / Isabel Deisenhofer.