The problem of cardiac stimulation in Africa

ISBN-13: 9786203983821 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str.

Romain Houndolo; Adama Kane; Martin D. Houenassi

Opis

Cardiac pacing is an emergency medical and surgical treatment of symptomatic bradycardia. It is a growing reality in Africa despite many pitfalls. This book provides a holistic presentation of some aspects of the cardiac pacing problem in Africa. Capacity building of medical and paramedical cardiology human resources is an essential sub-basis for the consolidation of cardiac pacing activity. The insufficiently adequate technical platform as well as the economic impoverishment in a context of acquisition of pacemakers at a high price further hinders the access of the populations to this therapy necessary to avoid a good number of ''stupid deaths'' in our hospitals.

O autorze

Houndolo, Romain Romain Gbémiga HOUNDOLO is a cardiologist. His medical career has been developed in the universities of: Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Bourgogne, Paris Sud and Bordeaux. He is co-author of several publications including the multicenter study on the practice of rhythmology and cardiac pacing in Africa published in EUROPACE in 2017.