CURATOR

DR. CELSO SALGADO DE MELO

Physician in charge of the pacemaker department at the Hospital de Clinicas, Federal University of Minas Gerais (HC-UFTM) in Uberaba (MG). Specialist title from the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. Specialist Member of the Department of Artificial Cardiac Pacing of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (DECA / BSCVS). Founding partner of the Latin American Society of Cardiac Pacing and Electro Physiology (Solaece). Graduated from UFTM. Former resident doctor at the Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology – Sao Paulo.
He is in charge and curator of the collection of items that constitute the Museum of Pacemaker.
e-mail: celsosalgado@uol.com.br

Recent publication: Pacemaker topics

There are hundreds of pages explaining all the secrets of cardiac pacing, including its history, basic concepts, major advancements and the enormous progress that enabled the advent of modern pacemakers, implantable cardiac defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization and the resynchronizing defibrillators. The transformation of a guidebook into a treatise represents, on one hand, the tremendous development of the specialty in the past 40 years, and on the other hand, the tireless and selfless work of the author and editor. This fourth edition will certainly be a valuable source of information to all of the specialists and physicians, paramedics and technicians involved in artificial cardiac pacing and modern electrophysiology.

Publisher: Medical Reading
Edition: 4th / 2011 – 911 pages
ISBN: 9788561125646
21.5 x 28.5 x 6.0 cm