Interventional Electrophysiology in Children and in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease

At Last, a succinct and easy-to-read resource for understanding the use of invasive procedures and devices for the treatment and prevention of cardiac arrhythmias in children and young adults.

Interventional Electrophysiology in Children and Adults with Congenital Heart Disease is your guide to techniques and procedures for ablation to minimize both radiation exposure and cost, including:

• simplifying the protocols necessary to diagnose supraventricular tachycardia, the most common arrhythmia in children and young adults
  
• radiofrequency ablation
  
• cryoablation, the new technique used to prevent atrioventricular block
  
• new 3-D mapping techniques, documented with color images
  
• radiation sparing catheter manipulation strategies
  
• device implantation

The authors also offer straightforward guidance on meeting the unique challenges surrounding anesthesia management of children and adults with CHD during interventional EP procedures. They even address the psychosocial issues encountered by CHD patients with implanted arrhythmia devices.

This dedicated editorial team has created a complete knowledge base essential for both pediatric and adult cardiologists, electrophysiologists, and cardiac surgeons.