Starting to Read ECGs The Basics /

This book aims to provide the beginner with a concise, practical and systematic guide to interpreting ECGs. It will serve not only as a starter text but also as an immediate bedside reference manual. Starting to Read ECGs: The Basics begins with fundamentals such as how to perform, record and interp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Davies, Alan (Autor), Scott, Alwyn (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Temas:
Cardiology.
Medical sciences.
Critical care medicine.
Health Sciences.
Intensive Care Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1: How to record a 12-lead ECG
  • Physiology
  • What is an ECG
  • Patient positioning
  • Electrode placement
  • Attaching the cables
  • The machine
  • What to write on the ECG
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 2: ECG basics
  • How does the 12-lead ECG work?
  • ECG paper
  • Details found on a standard 12-lead ECG
  • 12-lead ECG leads
  • The PQRST waveform
  • Deflection
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 3: Quality issues pertaining to ECG recording
  • Background
  • Leads
  • Calibration markers
  • ECG Documentation
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 4: Principles of ECG analysis
  • Background
  • Basic quality control checks
  • The rate
  • The rhythm
  • The P wave
  • The PR interval
  • The QRS complex
  • The ST segment
  • The T wave
  • The QT interval
  • Electrical axis
  • Additional features
  • The normal ECG and normal variants
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 5: Chamber abnormalities
  • Physiology
  • Atrial abnormality
  • Ventricular abnormality
  • Normal variants
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 6: Arrhythmias
  • Background
  • Ectopic beats
  • Atrial arrhythmias
  • Junctional arrhythmias
  • Ventricular Arrhythmias
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 7: Conduction delay
  • Background
  • Bundle Branch Blocks
  • Atrioventricular Blocks (AV Blocks)
  • Sinoatrial blocks (SA blocks)
  • Sick Sinus Syndrome (SSS)
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 8: Miscellaneous cardiac conditions
  • Background
  • Paced rhythms
  • Types of permanent pacemaker (PPM)
  • ECG identification of Pacemakers
  • Pericarditis
  • Long QT syndromes
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 9: Non cardiac conditions identifiable on the ECG
  • Background
  • Electrolyte imbalances
  • Hypothermia
  • Digoxin use
  • Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 10: Acute Coronary Syndromes
  • Background
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for CHD
  • Angina
  • Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)
  • Evolution of STEMI
  • Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB) and chest pain
  • Summary of key points
  • Quiz.

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