Main description:

An Atlas of Radioscopic Catheter Placement is unique, and has been conceived as a handy reference guide for students, interventional cardiologists, nurses and electrophysiology technicians. It includes plenty of schemes and X-ray images, and every EP correct catheter positioning is explained step by step through detailed descriptions of the necessary manoeuvres, including some "trucks" brought about by the experience.

Contents:

Section I. Brief review of the radioscopic anatomy of the heart.-Section II. Electrophysiology.-Chapter 1: The electrophysiological study.-Diagnostic catheters.- Atrial catheter.-Hissian catheter.-Ventricular catheter: apex and outflow tract.- Coronary sinus catheter.-Chapter 2: Ablation of right atrial arrhythmias.-2.1 Ablation catheters.-AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia.-AV nodal modulation and ablation.-Typical atrial flutter.-Right accessory pathways.-Chapter 3: Ablation of left atrial arrhythmias.-Retroaortic maneuver.-Transseptal puncture.-Left accessory pathways.-Chapter 4: Atrial fibrillation ablation.-Pulmonary veins angiography.-Catheter positioning in the left atrium with single transseptal puncture.-Pulmonary veins isolation.-Linear lesion.-Chapter 5: Ventricular tachycardia ablation.- Bundle branch re-entry tachycardia.-Right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia.-Idiopathic left ventricle tachycardia.-Post-ischemic ventricular tachycardia.-Section III. Cardiac Pacing.-Chapter 1: PM/ICD-Defibrillator.-Pacing and defibrillation leads.-Atrial lead placement.-Ventricular lead placement.-Chapter 2: Biventricular PM/ICD-Defibrillator.-Coronary sinus anatomy.-Left ventricular lead placement.-Chapter 3: Lead extraction.-Lead extraction technique.-Section IV. Commented bibliography.