Product Description
Over the years we have heard many complaints that there is no very simple book on cardiac pacing for real beginners. We have also heard that all the books on cardiac pacing are too complicated and impossible to understand by beginners. Many have voiced the hope that one day someone would write a book in the same style as Dubin’s book on basic electrocardiography which is a huge bestseller with well over a million sold in many languages. A ‘Dummy’ book on cardiac pacing would appeal to nurses, cardiology technicians, medical students and pacemaker companies for training their staff.

We started with the assumption that the reader would know the principles of electrocardiography as in Dubin’s book but nothing about cardiac pacing. We carefully studied the Dubin book and believe that we have improved his teaching method. The book consists of numbered illustrations each illustrating a concept in the form of a diagram drawn professionally. We have been careful to make the artwork simple for easy comprehension.

Each illustration will occupy a page and have several lines of text below it. We have already completed most of these. It is essential that there are all in color, this is a unique selling point.

The 3 authors have had vast experience in the field. Dr Barold has published 10 books on cardiac pacing and wrote the section on cardiac pacing in the 4th and 5th Edition of Braunwald’s book, Heat Disease."
S. Serge Barold, Roland Stroobandt and Alfons Sinnaeve

Content:

The plates depicting a concept with occupy 1 pages. Each plate consists of a diagram and a short text.
All diagrams are in color. In black and white they would lose their teaching value
There will be approx 200 plates.
There will be approx 100 electrocardiograms.
There will be a glossary, appendices and index

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 4 reviews)

Weird but great

This book looks more like a comic book, which took me aback at first. But it's loaded with all the stuff you need to know in an easy to read format. Nothing lightweight about it.
April 29, 2008

Not every part of the book is easily understood

Step by step books takes you from zero gradually to a place.But this book takes you from zero to 6,again takes from 1 to 3 etc.Although some parts are easily understood,if you are not familiar to pacemakers you can not understand some parts of this book easily .Some parts are very detailed.Pictures are funny.Perhaps case reviews would be better to understand what to do in the problems of pacemakers.At the end of the book the overview text is well designed and teaching.
December 03, 2006

Fun to read!

Pacemaker technology is not an easy thing to learn. Often the question is where to start. This illustrated guide presents the basics in a fun way combined with easy to read text. Untill now I read 33% of the book and it feels like I'm getting somewhere.
August 01, 2006

ESPECTACULAR - OUTSTANDING

Uno de los mejores libros de MP que he leído. Sín duda es el más didáctico pero explica todo. Parece un libro para alguien que no sabe nada, pero creo que incluso para los que sabemos algo, es un libro que nos puede enseñar muchas cosas (al menos nos enseña a enseñar;)
Te aseguro que vale la pena.

One of the best books about PM I've ever read. It's both didactic and deep, so it explains almost everything. It seems a book for non specialist, but I think even who knows something about PM can learn some things about PM with this book (at least learn how to teach ;)
It worth every penny.
September 02, 2005

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