Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
A Comprehensive Guide to Performing the Cox Maze IV Procedure
- 1st Edition - August 7, 2017
- Authors: Jonathan Philpott, Christian Zemlin, Ralph J. Damiano
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 4 6 7 1 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 4 6 7 2 - 2
Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: A Comprehensive Guide to Performing the Cox-Maze IV Procedure is the first all-inclusive description of this rapidly growing surgery,… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSurgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: A Comprehensive Guide to Performing the Cox-Maze IV Procedure is the first all-inclusive description of this rapidly growing surgery, setting the standard in the field. The Cox-Maze IV procedure is a complex surgery, and its success depends critically on correct execution. With FDA approval, the first RF ablation device for treatment of the Cox-Maze IV procedure has become more important than ever to combine scientific information for the procedure with its connection to human application.
This comprehensive text provides step-by-step instructions from an experienced Cox-Maze IV surgeon and is written in the style of a mentor advising his mentee in the operating room. It contains over a dozen lessons described in detail, with illustrations, photographs and a discussion of possible complications and appropriate ways to deal with them.
Additionally, the book describes sequencing for the surgeries that are typically performed concomitant with the Cox-Maze IV procedure, determining the optimal way to combine surgeries.
Cardiac surgeons, fellows in cardiac surgery, medical students inclined toward cardiac surgery and cardiology researchers will find this book to be of great importance to their work.
- Offers access to video clips that show the steps of the Maze procedure, the techniques involved and the pitfalls that need to be avoided
- Includes coverage of post-procedure management of patients, including assessment, patient follow-up, typical complications and participation in outcome databases
- Provides a detailed discussion of the different energy sources used for the procedure
- Presents guidelines for sequencing and/or combining concomitant surgeries
- No. of pages: 334
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 7, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128046715
- eBook ISBN: 9780128046722
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Jonathan Philpott
He is a Diplomat of The American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, and the Heart Rhythm Society.
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Christian Zemlin
He has done basic research on arrhythmia mechanisms and particularly atrial fibrillation for 15 years. He uses voltage-sensitive florescent probed to experimentally study cardiac activity large-scale parallel computer modeling to understand how arrhythmias are initiated and maintained. Other research interests include imaging of tissue structures using optical clearing and confocal; microscopy and the general theory of excitable media.
He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles (in the category of Medicine), book chapters, and peer-reviewed abstracts. His work receives increased citations year over year from 2005-2014.
Dr. Zemlin is actively collaborating with Dr. Philpott on optimizing aspects of the Cox Maze IV procedure in animal experiments
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Ralph J. Damiano
He has authored more than 250 scientific publications in the category of Medicine and is the top rated author of the top 100 in this research area by both scholarly output and citation count. His major contributions have been in the area of myocardial preservation during heart surgery, surgical electrophysiology and minimally invasive cardiac surgery. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and is on nine other editorial boards. He has served as a member of the Surgery and Biomedical Engineering Study Section at the NIH.