Table of Contents

Part 3 : Catheter and Surgical Ablation
CHAPTER 10
Ablation of Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardias (Pages: 112-127)
Nitish Badhwar MBBS, FACC Melvin M. Scheinman MD, FACC
CHAPTER 11
Ablation of Ventricular Fibrillation (Pages: 128-140)
Karen P. Phillips MB, BS (Hons), FRACP J. David Burkhardt Robert A. Schweikert MD Walid I. Saliba MD Andrea Natale MD
CHAPTER 16
Current Surgical Techniques for Ischemic Ventricular Tachycardia (Pages: 190-197)
Robert J. Moraca MD Marci S. Bailey RN Ralph J. Damiano Jr. MD
Part 4 : Epidemiology, Risk Stratification, and Pharmacological Therapy for Ventricular Tachycardia and Sudden Death
CHAPTER 17
Epidemiology and Etiologies of Sudden Cardiac Death (Pages: 198-212)
Keane K. Lee MD Amin Al-Ahmad MD Paul J. Wang MD Robert J. Myerburg MD, FACC
CHAPTER 20
Pharmacological Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias (Pages: 247-266)
Kevin J. Makati MD Munther Homoud MD Mark S. Link MD Jonathan Weinstock MD N.A. Mark Estes III MD
Part 5 : Ventricular Fibrillation and Defibrillation
CHAPTER 21
The Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation (Pages: 267-276)
Lan S. Chen MD Peng-Sheng Chen MD Moshe S. Swissa MD
CHAPTER 22
Mechanisms of Defibrillation (Pages: 277-288)
Derek J. Dosdall PhD Jian Huang MD, PhD Raymond E. Ideker MD, PhD
CHAPTER 23
Automatic External Defibrillation and Public Access Defibrillator Response (Pages: 289-297)
Paul J. Wang MD Amin Al-Ahmad MD Robert J. Myerburg MD, FACC
CHAPTER 25
Advances in Implantable Defibrillator Therapy and Technologies (Pages: 312-326)
Paul J. Wang MD Amin Al-Ahmad MD Henry H. Hsia MD Paul C. Zei MD, PhD
CHAPTER 26
ICD Lead Extraction: When, Why and How? (Pages: 327-334)
Bruce L. Wilkoff MD Oussama Wazni MD