You and Your Arrhythmia: A Guide to Heart Rhythm Problems for Patients & Their Families

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Glossary of Medical Terms and Definition......Page 14
How the Heart Works......Page 18
The Heart as a Pump......Page 20
The Heart as an Electrical Organ......Page 24
Patients and Their Arrhythmias......Page 26
Premature Beats in a Healthy Student......Page 28
Atrial Fibrillation in a Medical Intern......Page 32
Atrial Fibrillation in a Man with a Heart Murmur......Page 38
Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) in a Healthy Young Woman......Page 50
Atrial Flutter in a 45-Year-Old Executive......Page 60
Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia in a 75-Year-Old Housewife with Emphysema and Diabetes......Page 64
Ventricular Tachycardia in a Man with Coronary Heart Disease......Page 68
Ventricular Fibrillation Producing Cardiac Arrest......Page 74
Heart Block in a 72-Year-Old Professor......Page 78
Sick Sinus Syndrome and Carotid Sinus Hypersensitivity in a 60-Year-Old Man......Page 86
Treating Arrhythmias......Page 92
Drugs Used to Treat Arrhythmias......Page 94
Devices Used to Treat Arrhythmias......Page 106
Historical Reports......Page 124
Michel Mirowski and the Implantable CardioverterDefibrillato......Page 126
Wolff, Parkinson, and White......Page 150
References......Page 154
Index......Page 156