The Essential Visual Guide to Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology

Cardiac Electrophysiology: A Visual Guide for Nurses, Techs, and Fellows, Second Edition fulfills the need of allied health personnel and new fellows for a practical, hands-on pictorial guide that clearly illustrates the essential concepts of clinical cardiac electrophysiology. More than 85 high-quality tracings, diagrams, fluoroscopic images, and electroanatomic maps, accompanied by detailed discussions of each image, offer a fundamental understanding of cardiac electrophysiology equipment, principles, and procedures:

• Catheter placement, hardware connections, and intracardiac signals

• Normal electrogram sequences associated with sinus rhythm

• Methodologies used to uncover the mechanisms of common clinical tachycardias

Authored by a team of experts, Cardiac Electrophysiology: A Visual Guide for Nurses, Techs, and Fellows, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for a complex technology, providing superb guidance in acclimating new trainees and personnel to the EP laboratory and empowering them with the knowledge and skills needed to practice clinical electrophysiology.

New to the Second Edition:

• A new unit—Cardiac Electrical Axis

• 16 video clips with a focus on electrogram sequences

• An illustrated glossary and abbreviations list

• A free eBook included Common terms and phrases:

A-H interval ablation AEGM antegrade areas arrow atrial activation atrial flutter AV nodal AV node AVNRT AVRT axis axis deviation basic beat bundle branch block cardiac catheter caused channel circuit clinical Commentary complex concept conduction continues coupling interval cycle length decrement delay diagnosis direction display drive earliest echo Effective electrical electrode entrainment example exit extra-stimulus fascicle fast pathway followed forces green heart increase Incremental indicating initiated lateral lead left atrium longer maneuver mapping measure mechanism morphology msec myocardium negative node normal Note observe occurs onset origin pacing patient pattern positive posterior potential present reached recording reentrant refers relatively represents response retrograde rhythm seen sequence shows signal sinus slow pathway surface tachycardia tissue tracing traveling typical unipolar Unit usually vector vein ventricle ventricular Video wave of depolarization yellow zone