Lu and Benditt (cardiac electrophysiology and cardiovascular medicine， U. of Minnesota School of Medicine) present a text on the principles and practices of cardiac pacing and defibrillation written by and for implanting and follow-up physicians， those in training， and device engineers in the US and UK. The text contains 35 chapters on basic and clinical cardiac electrophysiology， cardiac pacing for brachycardia， defibrillation， physiological pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy， anesthesia， implantation， remote management， and other topics. No index is provided.