- Practical guide entirely devoted to arrhythmia induction in the EP lab
- Provides tips and tricks to overcome the issue of uninducible arrhythmias
- Authors share experiences and administration protocols from their own hospital
- Clearly summarizes side-effects and contraindications in dedicated charts
This book focuses on how to induce clinical arrhythmias in the electrophysiology (EP) laboratory, a procedure that is indispensable for analyzing the underlying mechanisms, and identifying the most effective treatment of the arrhythmia.
In the main part of the book, the authors share their own experiences with 13 different medications that can be injected or infused for arrhythmia induction – ranging from isoprenaline and atropine to ephedrine – all of which can be easily found in any cardiology department.
Each chapter begins with a description of the drug’s chemical structure and mechanism of actions, then illustrates the infusion preparation, dosage and side effects and lastly analyzes its electrophysiological properties and highlights the most important clinical studies on it. For each drug the authors list – in dedicated tables – administration protocols from their own hospital.
This book is of interest to postgraduate students, cardiology residents, cardiologists and pediatric cardiologists with special interest in arrhythmias, as well as to trainees, technicians and nurses involved in the EP lab.
Table of Contents- Introduction: Why Do We Need Arrhythmia Induction?
- How to Induce Arrhythmias by Atrial and Ventricular Programmed Stimulation?
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Isoprenaline
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Orciprenaline
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Atropine
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Noradrenaline
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Dobutamine
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Dopamine
- Adrenaline Versus Atropine for AVNRT Induction
- Adrenaline Versus Isoprenaline for Arrhythmia Induction
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Salbutamol
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Caffeine?
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Adenosine?
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Aminophylline?
- How to Induce Arrhythmias with Ephedrine?
- Arrhythmias Induction and Energy Drinks
- Ajmaline, Flecainide and Propafenone Can Induce Ventricular Fibrillation in Patients with Brugada Syndrome
- Arrhythmia Induction in Children
- Arrhythmia Induction During Transesophageal Electrophysiological Study
- How to Induce Pacemaker-Mediated Tachycardia?
- What to Do When Clinical Arrhythmia Is Uninducible?: Stepwise Approach
