Description
Book SynopsisInterpreting 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 leading names in electrophysiology.
Table of ContentsPreface vii
Forewords to Previous Editions ix
Foreword x
Part I: The Normal Electrocardiogram 1
1 Anatomical and Electrophysiological Bases 3
2 The ECG Curve: What Is It and How Does It Originate? 11
3 Recording Devices and Techniques 33
4 ECG Interpretation 40
Part II: Morphological Abnormalities in the ECG 59
5 Atrial Abnormalities 61
6 Ventricular Enlargements 68
7 Ventricular Blocks 84
8 Ventricular Preexcitation 102
9 Myocardial Ischemia and Necrosis 111
Part III: The ECG in Arrhythmias 161
10 Concepts Classification and Mechanisms of Arrhythmias 163
11 ECG Patterns of Supraventricular Arrhythmias 179
12 ECG Patterns of Ventricular Arrhythmias 193
13 The ECG Patterns of Passive Arrhythmias 208
14 How to Interpret ECG Tracings with Arrhythmia 217
Part IV: ECG in Clinical Practice 221
15 From Symptoms to the ECG: ECGs in the presence of precordial pain or other symptoms 223
16 The ECG in Genetically Induced Heart Diseases and Other ECG Patterns with Poor Prognosis 231
17 ECG Recordings in Other Heart Diseases and Different Situations 246
18 Abnormal ECG Without Apparent Heart Disease and Normal ECG in Serious Heart Disease 258
Bibliography 262
Index 267
