Cardiac Electrophysiology: A Visual Guide for Nurses, Techs, and Fellows, 2nd Edition

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A practical, hands-on pictorial guide that illustrates the essential concepts of clinical cardiac electrophysiology for allied health personnel, fellows, and those new to the EP lab. 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 Full color interior in landscape format. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents About the Authors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Video Descriptions Abbreviations and Glossary Before We Begin an SVT Study Unit 1: The Basics 1. Catheter Placement 2. The Computer System 3. Signal Processing 4. Signal Sequence in Sinus Rhythm 5. Basic Conduction Intervals 6. Tissue Conduction 7. Supraventricular Tachycardia Diagnostic Study Incremental Ventricular Pacing Retrograde Wenckebach Ventricular Extra-stimulus Pacing Retrograde V-A block Ventricular Effective Refractory Period Atrial Extra-stimulus Pacing Atrioventricular Block Atrial Effective Refractory Period Incremental Atrial Pacing Unit 2: Common Clinical Tachycardias 8. AV Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia Jump AV Nodal Echo Onset of Tachycardia 9. Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia Wolff-Parkinson-White Accessory Pathway Locations Accessory Pathway Echo AVRT Initiation Effective Refractory Period of an Accessory Pathway Ablation of Accessory Pathways 10. Focal Atrial Tachycardia 11. Atrial Flutter Typical Catheter Placement Cavo-tricuspid Isthmus Ablation Split A’s 12. Atrial Fibrillation Basic Diagnosis Near-Field Versus Far-Field Electrograms Entrance Block Exit Block Pulmonary Vein Fibrillation Independent Pulmonary Vein Activity 13. Ventricular Tachycardia Basic Diagnosis Activation Mapping Pace Mapping Entrainment Mapping Scar-dependent Ventricular Tachycardia Voltage Mapping Substrate Modification Unit 3: Advanced Concepts 14. Mechanisms of Tachycardia 15. Bipolar Versus Unipolar Electrograms 16. Latency 17. Gap Phenomenon 18. PVCs into AVNRT 19. PVCs into AVRT 20. Entrainment Pacing 21. Para-Hisian Pacing Unit 4: Advanced Tracings 22. An Irregular Rhythm 23. Why Does the A-H Interval Vary? 24. Distinguishing A from V 25. An Unexpected QRS 26. Unusual Onset of Tachycardia 27. Diagnostic Dilemma 28. A Dangling Potential 29. After Pulmonary Vein Ablation Unit 5: Cardiac Electrical Axis 30. Vector Basics 31. Tug-of-War 32. Normal QRS Axis 33. Left Axis Deviation 34. Right Axis Deviation 35. North–West Axis 36. Bifascicular Blocks