Fighting Sudden Cardiac Death: A Worldwide Challenge - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879934603 ISBN 13: 9780879934606

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

This book analyzes sudden cardiac death from the multiple perspectives of world-renowned experts. "Fighting Sudden Cardiac Death: A Worldwide Challenge" reviews the background of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in light of new advances in genetics, mechanisms of therapy, and prevention, thus providing the reader with a more unified view of SCD, a better understanding of the pathological mechanisms of SCD, and the tools needed to identify the appropriate treatment for patients at risk for a primary event. Its 50 chapters incorporate expert findings on a wide variety of relevant subjects, ranging from cell to examination, from idiopathic arrhythmias and SCD in athletes to arrhythmogenic heart failure, from long QT syndrome to ventricular dysplasia, from prehospital resuscitation to very sophisticated implantable devices.In-depth discussions on the background, therapy and prevention of SCD serve to increase and improve the tools available to battle this "serial killer." Cardiologists, electrophysiologists, and internists, both in clinical practice and in the laboratory, will find a great deal of valuable information in this book.

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This book analyzes sudden cardiac death from the multiple perspectives of world-renowned experts.

Fighting Sudden Cardiac Death: A Worldwide Challenge reviews the background of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in light of new advances in genetics, mechanisms of therapy, and prevention, thus providing the reader with a more unified view of SCD, a better understanding of the pathological mechanisms of SCD, and the tools needed to identify the appropriate treatment for patients at risk for a primary event.

Its 50 chapters incorporate expert findings on a wide variety of relevant subjects, ranging from cell to examination, from idiopathic arrhythmias and SCD in athletes to arrhythmogenic heart failure, from long QT syndrome to ventricular dysplasia, from prehospital resuscitation to very sophisticated implantable devices. In-depth discussions on the background, therapy and prevention of SCD serve to increase and improve the tools available to battle this "serial killer."

Cardiologists, electrophysiologists, and internists, both in clinical practice and in the laboratory, will find a great deal of valuable information in this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879934603
• ISBN 13: 9780879934606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 724
• Editor: Aliot Etienne, Clementy MD Jacques, Prystowsky MD Eric N.