Meet the editor

Endre Zima, MD, is head of Cardiac ICU at Semmelweis University Heart and Vascular Center, Budapest, Hungary. He is specialized in anesthesiology, intensive care, and cardiology. He received a Ph.D. in 2006 and a medical habilitation degree in 2017 from Semmelweis University. As a professor, he has been holding graduate and postgraduate lectures and practices in anesthesiology/intensive care and cardiology. He has a European

Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) accreditation for Cardiac Pacing and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators and is a Full Instructor of Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) for the European Resuscitation Council. Dr. Zima is a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, EHRA, and the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association. He is also the president of the Working Group on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Pacing and a board member of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology and WG of Heart Failure. His fields of research are acute and intensive cardiac care, cardiogenic shock/acute heart failure, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, post-cardiac arrest intensive care, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, arrhythmias, ICD/IPG/CRT therapy, and defibrillator waveform development. Dr. Zima has one accepted and one submitted patents patent to his credit. He is the author of thirteen book chapters, sixty-six international journal articles, and fifty-six native-language papers. He is currently supervising the research works of three Ph.D. students and seven medical students.

Contents

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 25**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 57**

**Chapter 5 75**

**Chapter 6 89**

**Chapter 7 109**

**Chapter 8 121**

Molecular Mechanism and Current Therapies for Catecholaminergic

Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

COVID-19 and Cardiac Enzymes

Cardiac Death in Athletes

*by Zuraini Md. Noor*

*by Amad Hania*

An In-Silico Model for Pharmacotherapy

*by Srinivasan Jayaraman and Ponnuraj Kirthi Priya*

*by Iurii Karpenko, Dmytro Skoryi and Dmytro Volkov*

Prognostication in Post-Cardiac Arrest Patients *by Dilok Piyayotai and Sombat Muengtaweepongsa*

*by Bin Liu, Brian D. Tow and Ingrid M. Bonilla*

*by Meher Singha, Abhishek Madathanapalli and Raj Parikh*

A High Fidelity Transmural Anisotropic Ventricular Tissue Model Function to Investigate the Interaction Mechanisms of Drug:

The Evolving Concept of Cardiac Conduction System Pacing

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in General Population and Sudden

*by Bettina Nagy, Boldizsár Kiss, Gábor Áron Fülöp and Endre Zima*

Life-Threatening Cardiac Arrhythmias during Anesthesia and Surgery

The Initial Assessment and Management of the Post-Cardiac Arrest Patient
