Product Description
This 3rd edition presents cutting-edge standards of pacing and defibrillation to keep you at the forefront of this rapidly expanding field. You'll find coverage of all the new devices and management strategies you need to solve a full range of clinical problems using today's best approaches. Written by world authorities on pacing and devices for cardiac care, this new full-color 3rd edition is the more practical than ever!Addresses the management of patients with a broad range of conditions, including sinus node disease, carotid sinus hypersensitivity, tachyarrhythmias, heart failure, and more.Details cardiac pacing in pediatric patients.Illustrates vital concepts and techniques with over 745 x-rays and figures.Explains how to approach pacemaker generator changes.Reviews fundamental concepts such as how to pace the heart and how leads, power sources, programmers, and electronic circuitry work.Contains a new chapter on resynchronization trials.Includes an image bank and video clips of key procedures on DVD-ROM to help you understand and implement the latest techniques.Offers technical information on both new and old devices to help you make the correct choice for every patient.Provides new material on implantation, with key updates to all aspects of this challenging clinical area.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 5 reviews)

Biased by Michael K. Belz (Seattle, WA)

5 Stars
January 26, 2009
Disclosure: I trained under Ellenbogen in the very early 90s. I have serially purchased just about every book he has authored and edited and saw the detail with which he reviewed earlier editions of this and other books on pacing. I authored several papers with him. He is a brilliant and meticulous clinician and and this obviously translates into his published work. This current third edition is similar to prior editions in it's bench to operating table completeness with excellent additions regarding emerging technology. In particular, his choice of authors is most appropriate, the most impressive of which is the chapter on LV lead placement. I have been implanting biventricular devices for over 10 years (having been involved in early clinical trials), rarely need to refer patients to a surgeon and still have gotten extremely useful tips from this 250+ page chapter. This edition continues to cover the basic concepts, device behavior and troubleshooting, device management, lead extraction and future directions in a most comprehensive fashion. This is the bible of pacing and far exceeds anything else out there for the serious experienced CRMD implanter.

Ellenbogen textbook by C. Tsai (Modesto, CA USA)

5 Stars
December 03, 2007
I purchassed this textbook to prepare for the IBHRE exam. It provided an complete and excellent overview of pacemakers, ICD's, and cardiac resynchronization therapy and served as my main source of study for the exam. The textbook was well written and well-referenced. I recommend it for anyone who wants to learn more about cardiac device rhythm therapy.

Outstanding, comprehensive text by Sarah Coventry (OH USA)

5 Stars
October 05, 2007
This book stands out as truly comprehensive with excellent background information, science, and truly up-to-date patient management details. The DVD is a great addition. Yes, it IS fun to read. If you need to know it, it is in the book!

An Excellent, Comprehensive, Clinically Useful Book by Richard B. Shepard (Birmingham, Alabama)

5 Stars
January 20, 2007
This reviewer is co-author of Chapter 1. His biased judgment, as someone who began implanting pacemakers in 1961 and defibrillators in the early 1980's, is that this book is a great one. The book does have some word abbreviation errors that should be listed for the reader. In Chapter 1 the legends for figures 1-17 and 1-19 had the incorrect abbreviation msec substituted somewhere in the publishing process for the word microseconds that was spelled out in the manuscript. Also, in the legend for figure 1-22 the terms 10 msec and 500 msec were in the publishing process substituted for the 10 microseconds and 500 microseconds that were spelled out in the manuscript. The same set of corrections applies to the DVD ROM presentation of Chapter 1 figure legends. Similarly during the publishing process the incorrect abbreviation "mF" was substituted for the manuscript's "microfarads" on page 29 of Chapter 1 near the bottom of the left hand column. The book and DVD ROM do present highly useful clinical and background information bearing on treatment of cardiac rhythm problems with electrical devices. These are classical pacemakers, defibrillators, resynchronization devices, and combinations thereof. The information - and its organization in the book and in one's mind - are important for physicians who implant electrical devices. The information will also be important for other medical and physical science persons who are concerned with cardiac rhythm, sudden death, and congestive heart failure problems. The book - because it is both intellectually satisfying and practical - is fun to read, bits at a time.

Clinical Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation

5 Stars
July 03, 2000
This book, Contains all the main topic in pacing and ICD. included all the main studis in this area. Until this book it was very dificult to find this topic. so that clear, well writen, and whit the main autors in each topic. In this moment I think that is the best book in this area.

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