Rate-adaptive Pacing

SECTION 1: BASIC CONCEPTS. 1. Current Pacing Modes: A Brief Review of their Features and Indications - David G. Benditt. 2. Sensor-Triggered Rate-Adaptive Cardiac Pacing: An Overview - David G. Benditt. 3. Rate-Adaptive Cardiac Pacing: Current Technologies and Clinical Applications - Kenneth Stokes. 4. Exercise Physiology: Relation to Physiologic Racing - Marcus J. Mianulli. 5. Exercise Testing: Identifying the Chronotropically Incompetent Patient - Bruce L. Wilkoff and Raymond E. Miller. 6. Timing Systems of DDDR Pacemakers - David L. Hayes, Arlen Ketelson, Paul A. Levine, H. Toby Markewitz, Richard Sanders and Geoffrey Schaney. 7. Specialized Pacing Leads for Rate-Adaptive Cardiac Pacing Systems: Implications for Lead Implantation, Longevity, and Removal - T. Duncan Sellers, Jr. and Heidi J. Smith. SECTION II: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF RATE-ADAPTIVE PACING. 8. Rate-Adaptive Pacemaker Hemodynamics: Clinical Implications - Edward A. Telfer and Thomas A. Buckingham. 9. Indications for Rate-Adaptive Pacing - Dwight Reynolds. 10. Current Roles of Dual-Chamber and Single-Chamber Rate-Adaptive Pacing - Lukas Kappenberger. 11. Physiologic Pacing Systems for Sick Sinus Syndrome Patients - Claude Daubert, Philippe Mabo and Christophe LeClercq. 12. Pacing Systems for Vasovagal Syncope and Other Neurally-Mediated Vasodepressor Syndromes - Richard Sutton. 13. Rate-Adaptive Pacing in Children: Requirements and Clinical Application - Arthur Garson, Jr. and Ronald J. Kanter. 14. Clinical Comparison of Currently Available Sensor-Based Rate-Adaptive Pacing Systems - Chu-Pak Lau, MD. 15. Clinical Follow-up of Rate-Adaptive Pacing Systems - Charles J. Love. 16. Limitations and Adverse Effects of Rate-Adaptive Pacemakers - S. Serge Barold. SECTION III: SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES FOR RATE-ADAPTIVE PACING. 17. Activity-Based Rate-Adaptive Pacing Systems: Piezoceramic Crystals, Acceleromenters - Kenneth M. Anderson. 18. Comparison of Acceleration vs. Traditional Vibration-Based Rate-Adaptive Pacing - Eckhard Alt. 19. Minute-Ventilation Based Rate-Adaptive Pacing - Harry G. Mond. 20. QT Based Rate-Adaptive Pacing - Dennis P. Humen. 21. Temperature-Based Rate-Adaptive Pacing - Eckhard Alt. 22. Evoked Potentials for Rate-Adaptive Pacing - Igor Singer. 23. Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation for Rate-Adaptive Pacing - Svein Faerestrand and Ole-Jorgen Ohm. 24. Right Heart Pressure Parameters for Rate-Adaptive Pacing - Karl Stangl and Michael Laule. 25. Dual Sensor Pacing - Malcolm J.S. Begemann. SECTION IV: PHYSIOLOGIC PACING TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL PACING PRACTICE. 26. Current Cardiac Pacing Trends in North America - David G. Benditt and Tom Edery. 27. European Trends in Cardiac Pacing - Demosthenes Katritsis and A. John Camm. 28. Cardiac Pacing in China: Present Status and Future Trends - Zhu Zhonglin. 29. Cardiac Pacing Practice in Japan and the Pacific Rim - Youichi Kobayashi, Takao Baba and Takashi Katagiri. (Part contents)