Practice and Progress in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology [antikvár]

Foreword One of the great international and regional, but truly world, meetings is EUROPACE. Most recently it was held during June 1995 in Istanbul, Turkey. This biennial meeting has traditionally drawn the best and brightest of the world of pacing, electrophysiology and tachycardia management and combined presentation of original and competitively submitted material with teaching of younger workers and symposia for the exchange of controversial attimdes and positions about newly developing technologies. While the European symposia (EUROPACE) began with cardiac pacing alone, they have now progressed far beyond placing, accompanying the growth, vigor and variety of the therapeutic interventions possible. The complexity of cardiac pacing and associated therapies has caused EUROPACE to progressively increase in the richness and diversity of its content. Comparison between earlier EUROPACE and that of 1995 will reveal startling evolution and differences. The 1995 Scientific Sessions included presentations concerning the new technologies in cardiac pacing, i.e., single lead VDD pacing, automatic mode switching and the use of cardiac pacing to inhibit ventricular tachyarrhythmias and atrial fibrillation and flutter and for hemodynamic benefit in dilated cardiomyopathy and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Arrhythmias were analyzed for diagnosis and therapy and topics of general and continuing interest included heart rate variability and sudden death in presumably healthy, young athletes. Newer areas of electrocardiography such as heart rate variability, signal averaging and QT dispersion, as diagnostic techniques were also presented. Implantable cardioversion and defibrillation, a progressively greater therapeutic area in the management of ventricular and possibly supraventricular arrhythmias was presented as were the other significant therapeutic interventions of growing importance. In all, there are five sections in the published proceedings: A. Arrhythmias and antiarrhythmic treatment strategies; B. Non-invasive electrocardiology; C. Cardiac pacing; xiii