Product Description
Written and edited by expert electrophysiologists, this book is a practical, well-illustrated guide to the most successful techniques for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. While other texts address ablation of different arrhythmias, this is the first book to focus specifically on atrial fibrillation. Chapters explain how to establish programs and laboratories for treating atrial fibrillation; use complex imaging modalities and guidance systems; implement a variety of catheter-based ablation strategies, either isolated or in tandem; monitor the ablated patient's course for complications and arrhythmia recurrence; and manage these problems should they arise. The chapters on lab staffing and equipment, pre-procedure preparation, and post-procedure care will be of special interest to paraprofessionals such as lab nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. More than 200 diagrams, photographs, and other illustrations demonstrate the techniques. "Doody's Core Titles™ 2009."

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 1 review)

Nothing new by Michael K. Belz (Seattle, WA)

3 Stars
January 12, 2009
I'm off to the 2009 Boston AF symposium next week. I have been performing ablations for 9 years. I was looking for a book that summarizes where we are in the process in a single tome. Obviously a difficult task in a changing field, but progress has stagnated recently, so it is an appropriate time to start writing textbooks. This one does reasonably well and is up to date. However, if you are already proficient in ablation for AF it doesn't really offer any new insights and if you are just starting it is probably a little misleading. For instance, in some chapters it still allows some of the less forthcoming practitioners in the field regarding potential of the success to continue their obviously inaccurate exaggeration. This harms the field in general and I think these people need to be audited - the authors know of whom I speak. So if a newer operator quotes from Chapter 10 a 90% success rate from the procedure described (presumably a single procedure - not mentioned), he or she is grossly misleading the patients, as we know from every other study. Overall, I think the book achieves its goal of summarizing what is known about AF ablation now and where the field is likely headed with only minimal need for grains of salt when reading certain authors.

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