Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers and Defibrillators
Subtitle: All You Wanted to Know
Contributors: Henry F. Clemo (Contributor); Martin R. Cowie (Contributor); Kenneth Ellenbogen (Contributor); Kristin Ellison (Contributor); Rebecca Lane (Contributor); Malcolm Kirk (Contributor); A. W. C. Chow (Editor); Alfred Buxton (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: February 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780727915665
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Medical / Nursing; Cardiology; Medical; Surgery - General; ARRHYTHMIA; DEFIBRILLATORS; Medical / Cardiology; Cardiac pacing; Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; Electric countershock
First sentence: The pertinent anatomy for cardiac pacing includes the sinoatrial (SA) node, the atrioventricular (AV) node, and the His-Purkinje system (Figure 1.1).