Overview
- Presents highly practical information, written in a quick-access, no-nonsense format
- Emphasis is on a just-the-facts clinical approach, heavy on tabular material, light on dense prose
- High quality contributions from authorities in their discipline establish a consistent approach within the book
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About this book
This extensively updated edition reviews current and potential future therapies for cardiac arrhythmias. Developing the highly practical format of the original, this edition provides a thorough guide for the use of pharmaceuticals in the management of the condition and is focused on providing a clinical manual for arrhythmia treatment.
Antiarrhythmic Drugs builds on the current understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms and insights gained from previous studies of therapeutic interventions. It is designed to establish the baseline level of knowledge that a cardiovascular professional needs to know on a day-to-day basis.
Keywords
- Antiarrhythmic drugs
- Arrhythmias
- Atrial fibrillation
- Bradycardia
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Ventricular tachycardia
- pharmacotherapy
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
A Martinez Rubio, is Chief of the Cardiology Department at the University Hospital of Sabadell and professor of Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, Spain. Ex-president of the International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
J Tamargo is professor of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine of the Univ. Complutense of Madrid, Spain
G.-Andrei Dan is Distinguished/Emeritus Professor of Cardiology & Internal Medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine, Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Scientists and past President of ISCP. Profesor Dan' main expertise is electrophysiology, pharmacology of antiarrhythmic drugs, atrial fibrillation and heart failure. He wrote more than 170 scientific papers, presented more than 50 international conferences and contributed to 15 European guidelines. He is a member of the board of several prestigious medical journals, Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Therapeutics and Editor in Chief of the Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine. He is also an Honorary Citizen of the Romanian capital, Bucharest
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Antiarrhythmic Drugs
Editors: Antoni Martínez-Rubio, Juan Tamargo, Gheorghe-Andrei Dan
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-74045-9Due: 31 December 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-74048-0Due: 31 December 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-74046-6Due: 31 December 2024
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 614
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour