This is a practical explanation of cardiac pacing that serves both as an introduction to the field and as a reference source in managing patients with pacemakers. In simple language, the authors present the indications for pacing and describe pacemaker technology, the clinical electrophysiology and haemodynamics of pacing, programmability and special circuits, types of devices and how they are used, pacemaker implantation and patient follow-up. The book closes with a glossary of pacemaker terminology, selected readings and an appendix containing a pacing rate/timing interval conversion chart and pacing paradigms.