Electrotherapy of the Heart: Technical Aspects in Cardiac Pacing

Schaldach, Max

Since 1958, when the first cardiac pacing system was implanted, the exemplary collaboration between medicine and engineering has developed into an extremely successful therapy. The book highlights many of the recent and most important technological advances and shows the multidisciplinary nature of the technical task of pacemaker development which is based on the diverse components of physiology, electronics, physics, electrochemistry and the material sciences.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2012-06-02

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783642502118

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-50209-5

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 253