TY - CHAP AU - Cosimo Chelazzi AU - Valentina Selmi AU - Luca Vitali AU - Angelo Raffaele De Gaudio ED - Oliver Vonend ED - Siegfried Eckert Y1 - 2011-09-15 PY - 2011 T1 - Infections of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices: Etiology, Prevention and Treatment N2 - Outstanding steps forward were made in the last decades in terms of identification of endogenous pacemakers and the exploration of their controllability. New "artifical" devices were developed and are now able to do much more than solely pacemaking of the heart. In this book different aspects of pacemaker - functions and interactions, in various organ systems were examined. In addition, various areas of application and the potential side effects and complications of the devices were discussed. BT - Aspects of Pacemakers SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/23360 DO - 10.5772/23360 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -