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Cardiac pacing and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator surveys : long-term Australian and international experience
thesis
posted on 2019-02-19, 22:11 authored by Mond, Harry GeorgeThis thesis represents work conducted over 40-years initially with Australian
surveys on cardiac pacing and later ICDs. During the late 1990's, the author took
on the responsibility of also organizing the world surveys, which are conducted
each four years. The last two Australian and World (2005 and 2009) surveys were
conducted and published under the banner of the Department of Epidemiology and
Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash
University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and forms the nucleus of the
dissertation.
The thesis has been prepared as an epidemiological work that can be readily
understood by both medical and non-medical readers. All medical terminology has
been carefully explained in simple English in Chapter 1. This was originally the
Appendix, but the author felt that this represented a vital link in the development of
the thesis and was promoted to the beginning. Although, probably too simple for
the examiners, it nevertheless will be important to readers who are involved in
taking on the arduous task of developing sophisticated pacemaker and ICD
registries. Finally, each chapter has been written as a single entity with its own
references. Consequently, there are areas of repetition in the text.