Preface

Part I: How the Heart Works

Chapter 1: The Heart as a Pump
Chapter 2: The Heart as an Electrical Organ

Part II: Patients and Their Arrhythmias

Chapter 3: Premature Beats in a Healthy Student
Chapter 4: Atrial Fibrillation in a Medical Intern
Chapter 5: Atrial Fibrillation in a Man with a Heart Murmur
Chapter 6: Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) in a Healthy Young Woman
Chapter 7: Atrial Flutter in a 45-Year-Old Executive
Chapter 8: Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia in a 75-Year-Old Housewife with Emphysema and Diabetes
Chapter 9: Ventricular Tachycardia in a Man with Coronary Heart Disease
Chapter 10: Ventricular Fibrillation Producing Cardiac Arrest
Chapter 11: Heart Block in a 72-Year-Old Professor
Chapter 12: Sick Sinus Syndrome and Cardotid Sinus Hypersensitivity in a 60-Year-Old Man

Part III: Treating Arrhythmias

Chapter 13: Drugs Used to Treat Arrhythmias
Chapter 14: Devises Used to Treat Arrhythmias

Part IV: The Electrocardiogram

Chapter 15: The Machine
Chapter 16: Electrocardiograms of Arrhythmias

Part V: Historical Reports

Chapter 17: Michel Mirowski and the Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator
Chapter 18: Wolff, Parkinson, and White

References

Index