Intracardiac ECGs and EGMs

Dr. Fred Kusumoto is a Consultant in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He is currently Director of the Electrophysiology and Pacing Section at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida. He has been involved in teaching and research and received the Excellence in Training in the Discipline of Cardiovascular Diseases two years in a row at Mayo Clinic and also named Teacher of the Year at the University of New Mexico. He has written two books on cardiac devices and cardiac pathophysiology and has authored over fifty journal articles and book chapters.

Preface, vii Part 1 Electrophysiology Concepts. 1 Procedural issues for electrophysiologic studies: vascular access, cardiac chamber access, and catheters, 3 2 Fluoroscopic anatomy and electrophysiologic recording in the heart, 15 3 Programmed stimulation, 29 4 Bradycardia, 51 5 Supraventricular tachycardia, 60 6 Wide complex tachycardia, 86 7 New technology, 94 8 Power sources for ablation, 99 Part 2 Specific Arrhythmias. 9 Accessory pathways, 107 10 AV node reentry, 132 11 Focal atrial tachycardia, 148 12 Atrial flutter, 161 13 Atrial fibrillation, 182 14 Ventricular tachycardia, 189 15 Implantable cardiac devices: ECGs and electrograms, 211 Index, 220