Cardiac Pacing for the Clinician
Cardiac implanted devices provide not only therapy but also information on the clinical status of a patient. While beneficial, this increasing complexity also means that all clinicians must be knowledgeable about device function, indications for devi
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Cardiac Pacing for the Clinician Second Edition Edited by
Fred M. Kusumoto, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Director Electrophysiology and Pacing Service Division of Cardiovascular Diseases Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Florida and
Nora F. Goldschlager, M.D. Professor of Clinical Medicine Co-Director Cardiology Division Director, Pacemaker Clinic ECG Laboratory and Coronary Care Unit San Francisco General Hospital University of California San Francisco School of Medicine San Francisco, California
Fred M. Kusumoto, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Director Electrophysiology and Pacing Service Division of Cardiovascular Diseases Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Florida USA
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-72762-2
Nora F. Goldschlager, M.D. Professor of Clinical Medicine Co-Director Cardiology Division Director, Pacemaker Clinic ECG Laboratory and Coronary Care Unit San Francisco General Hospital University of California San Francisco Medical School San Francisco, California USA
e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-72763-9
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To my wife, Laura, and my children, Miya, Hana, and Aya Fred Kusumoto To my husband, Arnie, and my children, Nina and Hilary Nora Goldschlager
Preface
As early as the late 1700s, Physicians speculated that electrical current could be used to stimulate the heart. In 1882, von Ziemssen used electrical current to directly stimulate the heart of a woman whose anterior chest wall had been removed after resection of a chest tumor. In 1952, Zoll used transthoracic current to pace the heart, and in 1958 the first implantable pacemaker was placed by Ake Senning and Rune Elmquist. At the same time, Furman and Robinson demonstrated the feasibility of transvenous cardiac pacing. In the late 1960s, Mirowski and colleagues pioneered the concept of an implantable device that cou
