Pocket ECGs A Quick Information Guide PDF
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Preface
This book, as its title implies, is meant to serve as a portable, easy to view, quick reference pocket guide. At your fingertips you have immediate access to the key characteristics associated with the various dysrhythmias and cardiac conditions. Essential (what you need to know) information is laid out in visually attractive color-coded pages making it easy to find the information for which you are looking. This allows you to quickly identify ECG tracings you see in the field or the clinical setting. It is also a useful tool in the classroom for quickly looking up key information. Small and compact, it can be easily carried in a pocket.
Chapter 1 provides a short introduction regarding the location of the heart and lead placement. Chapter 2 briefly describes the nine-step process for interpreting the various waveforms and normal and abnormal features found on ECG tracings. It visually demonstrates how to calculate the heart rate, identify irregularities, and identify and measure the various waveforms, intervals and segments. Key values for each waveform, interval, and segment are listed. Chapters 3 through 7 lead you through dysrhythmias of the sinus node, the atria, the AV junction, the ventricles, and AV heart block. Characteristics for each dysrhythmia are listed in simple to view tables. Sample tracings include figures of the heart that illustrate where each dysrhythmia originates and how it occurs. This helps you understand the ECG dysrhythmia rather than just memorize strips. Chapter 8 introduces the concept of electrical axis. Chapters 9 and 10 introduce concepts important to 12-lead ECG interpretation and recognizing hypertrophy, bundle branch block, preexcitation and myocardial injury, ischemia, and infarction. Finally, Chapter 11 discusses other cardiac conditions and their effects on the ECG.
We hope this learning program is beneficial to both students and instructors. Greater understanding of ECG interpretation can only lead to better patient care everywhere.
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