Device Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure

The field's foremost authorities offer guidance on the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and pacemakers for the management of congestive heart failure. They explain how these devices work; examine the patient-and device-selection process; review implant techniques, and outline aftercare. This concise resource makes this complex subject easy to understand.

• Discusses patient selection as well as aftercare.
• Features practice guidelines and techniques for implanting all new devices.
• Offers an outstanding review of cardiovascular anatomy.
• Provides an overview on the prognosis for congestive heart failure, and clinical rationales for the selection of device therapy.
• Reviews the results of clinical trials.

By Kenneth A Ellenbogen, MD, Director, Clinical Electrophysiology Section, Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, VA; Bruce L Wilkoff, MD, Director, Cardiac Pacing and Tachyarrhythmias Devices, Department of Cardiology, Director, Cardiovascular Computing Services, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; G. Neal Kay, MD, Director, Clinical Electrophysiology Section, Division of Cardiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; and Chu Pak Lau, MD, FRCPLond and Edin; FRACP; FHKCP; FHKAM (Medicine) , Professor of Medicine, Chief of Division of Cardiology, Queen Mary's Hospital; University of Hong Kong