Electrotherapy of the Heart

Since 1958, when the first cardiac pacing system wasimplanted, the exemplary collaboration between medicine andengineering has developed into an extremely successfultherapy. The book highlights many of the recent and most importanttechnological advances and shows the multidisciplinarynature of the technical task of pacemaker development whichis based on the diverse components of physiology,electronics, physics, electrochemistry and the materialsciences.