Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

With a growing population of young patients with congenital heart disease reaching adulthood, this unique new book offers an in–depth guide to managing the challenges and clinical issues related to device therapy in this patient group. Focusing on pacemaker, cardiac resynchronization therapy devices and  ICD  implantation techniques, device programming, trouble–shooting  and follow up as it relates to the pediatric and  congenital heart disease patients, this book provides a resource for the specialist pediatric cardiologist, electrophysiologist and the general cardiologist caring for children and young adults with congenital heart disease who have  cardiac rhythm management devices. 

Section one covers the basics of pacing and defibrillation with special reference to the pediatric patient. Sections two, three and four discuss clinical concepts, indications, practical approaches to device implantation, programming,  trouble–shooting, managing complications, and providing follow up. These sections include discussion of specific congenital heart diseases and the unique challenges that they present in relation to device implantation and programming. The book  includes helpful graphics, device electrogram tracings and radiographic images. Section four also includes a chapter on quality of life and sports participation, key elements of a young person s lifestyle.

The only book resource dedicated to pacing, cardiac resynchronization therapy and ICD therapy for the pediatric and congenital heart disease patient, Contains practical advice for pacemaker and ICD implantation, programming, trouble–shooting, managing complications and follow up, Up–to–date with the latest in device technology, Contains multiple graphics, device electrogram tracings, and radiographic images, Includes video clips and multiple choice questions for selected chapters on a companion website.   

An invaluable resource for both the specialist pediatric cardiologist and the general cardiologist responsible for children with heart disease and pacing devices.

Maully Shah, M.B.B.S, F.A.C.C, F.H.R.S, C.C.D.S, C.E.P.S
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology
The Children′s Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor of Pediatrics,
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA 

Larry Rhodes, M.D.          
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
Professor of Pediatrics
West Virginia Univeristy
Morgantown, WV, USA 

Jonathan R. Kaltman, MD
Chief, Heart Development and Structural Disease Branch,
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD, USA

 

List of contributors

About the companion website

Part 1: Introduction

1 History of Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation in the Young
Larry Rhodes and Robert Campbell

2 Clinically Relevant Basics of Pacing and Defibrillation
Maully Shah, M.B.B.S, F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S. and Erick Cuvillier M.Sc

Part 2: Clinical Concepts

3 Indications for Permanent Pacing, Device and Lead Selection
Philip Chang, M.D., Yaniv Bar Cohen M.D., and Christopher Carter M.D.

4 Indications for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy, Device and Lead Selection
Mitchell Cohen, M.D., and Susan Etheridge, M.D.

5 Hemodynamics of Pacing, and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) for the Failing Left and Right ventricle
Anne Dubin , M.D., and Kara Motonaga, M.D.

6 Sensor Driven Pacing: Ideal Characteristics in Pediatrics
David Bradle, y M.D., and Peter Fischbach, M.D.

7 ICD Testing
Elizabeth Stephenson M.D., and Charles Berul, M.D.

Part 3: Implantation Techniques

8 Permanent Transvenous Pacemaker, CRT and ICD Implantation in the Structurally Normal Heart
Akash Patel, M.D., and Steven Fishberger, M.D.

9 Permanent Pacemaker, CRT and ICD Implantation in Congenital Heart Disease
Ian Law, M.D., and Nicholas von Bergen, M.D.

10 Epicardial Pacing and ICD Implantation
Larry Rhodes, M.D., and Maully Shah, M.B.B.S, F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S.

11 Managing Device Related Complications and Lead Extraction
Avi Fischer, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S., and Barry Love, M.D.

12 Temporary Pacing in Children
Anjan Batra, M.D., M.B.A. F.H.R.S., and Ilana Zeltser, M.D.

Part 4: Device Programming and Follow–up

13 Pacemaker and ICD Programming in Congenital Heart Disease
Jonathan Kaltman and Jeff Moak

14 Pacemaker Troubleshooting and Follow up
Ronn Tanel and Frank Zimmerman

15 ICD Troubleshooting and Follow up
Maully Shah, M.B.B.S, F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S. and Steve Fishberger, M.D.

16 CRT Device Programming and Optimization
Seshadri Balaji, M.B.B.S, F.R.C.S (U.K.), Ph.D and Anoop Singh, M.B.B.Ch.

17 Implantable Syncope and Arrhythmia Monitors and AEDs
John Phillips, M.D., and Pamela Ro, M.D.

18 Electromagnetic Interference and Implantable Devices
R.Lee Vogel , M.D., and Karen Smoots, B.A., B.S.N., R.N., C.C.D.S.

19 Quality of Life, Sports and Implantable Devices in the Young
Elizabeth Saarel, M.D.

20 Device Innovations and the Future of Device Therapy for Arrhythmia and Heart Failure Management
Ronald Kanter, M.D., and Michael Carboni, M.D.

Pacemaker and ICD Glossary
Jacqueline Henderson, R.N., B.S.N.

Index