ECGs for beginners

Interpreting ECGs is a crucial skill for trainee cardiologists and electrophysiologists to learn. Packed with ECG traces, self-assessment questions and key points, this practical, step-by-step guide provides all you need to know about the topic, and all provided to you by one of the world's lea...

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Main Author: Bayes de Luna, Antoni, 1936- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey John Wiley & Sons 2014
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Table of Contents:
  • Anatomical and electrophysiological bases
  • The ECG curve : what is it and how does it originate?
  • Recording devices and techniques
  • ECG interpretation
  • Atrial abnormalities
  • Ventricular enlargements
  • Ventricular blocks
  • Ventricular pre-excitation
  • Myocardial ischemia and necrosis
  • Concepts, classification, and mechanisms of arrhythmias
  • ECG patterns in supraventricular arrhythmias
  • ECG patterns in active ventricular arrhythmias
  • The ECG patterns of passive arrhythmias
  • The management of ECG tracings with arrhythmia
  • From symptom to the ECG : ECGs in the presence of precordial pain or other symptoms
  • The ECG in genetically induced heart diseases and other ECG patterns with poor prognosis
  • ECG recordings in other heart diseases and different situations
  • Abnormal ECG in a patient with normal history taking and physical exploration and normal ECG in presence of important heart diseases.