Cardiac rhythm management

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Cardiac rhythm management is a field of treatment in cardiology. The purpose is managing cardiac rhythm disorders. Usually it involves artificial pacemakers and/or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy as well as antiarrhythmia drugs.

[edit] See also

• Cardiac electrophysiology

[edit] References

• "The Controversy over Guidant's Implantable Defibrillators" Robert Steinbrook. The New England Journal of Medicine. Boston: Jul 21, 2005.Vol.353, Iss. 3; pg. 221