Now in its updated Fifth Edition, The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need presents all the information clinicians need to use the EKG in everyday practice and interpret hypertrophy and enlargement, arrhythmias, conduction blocks, pre-excitation syndromes, and myocardial infarction.

The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need is an ideal reference for medical students in ICM courses, house officers, or anyone directly involved in patient care, whether student, teacher, or practitioner.

The book features more than 200 facsimiles of EKG strips and numerous case studies and clinical examples. This Fifth Edition includes updated information on pacemakers and myocardial infarction treatment and more practice EKGs.

Contents The Basics

• Electricity and the Heart
• Time and Voltage
• P Waves, QRS Complexes, T Waves, and Some Straight Lines
• Naming the Straight Lines
• Making Waves
• The 12 Views of the Heart
• A Word About Vectors
• The Normal 12-Lead EKG
• Coming Attractions

Hypertrophy and Enlargement of the Heart

• Definitions
• Axis
• Axis Deviation, Hypertrophy, and Enlargement
• Atrial Enlargement
• Ventricular Hypertrophy Secondary Repolarization Abnormalities of Ventricular Hypertrophy

Arrhythmias

• The Clinical Manifestations of Arrhythmias
• Why Arrhythmias Happen
• Rhythm Strips
• How to Determine the Heart Rate from the EKG
• The Four Basic Types of Arrhythmias
• Arrhythmias of Sinus Origin
• Ectopic Rhythms
• The Four Questions
• Ectopic Supraventricular Arrhythmias
• Ectopic Ventricular Arrhythmias
• Supraventricular Versus Ventricular Arrhythmias
• Programmed Electrical Stimulation
• Implantable Defibrillators

Conduction Blocks

• What Is a Conduction Block?
• AV Blocks
• Bundle Branch Block
• Hemiblocks
• Combining Bundle Branch Blocks and Hemiblocks
• The Ultimate in Playing With Blocks: Combining AV Blocks, Bundle Branch Blocks, and Hemiblocks
• Pacemakers

Preexcitation syndromes

• What Is Preexcitation?
• Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
• Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome
• Associated Arrhythmias

Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction

• What Is a Myocardial Infarction?
• How to Diagnose a Myocardial Infarction
• Localizing the Infarct
• Non-Q Wave Myocardial Infarctions
• Angina
• Limitations of the EKG in Diagnosing an Infarction
• Stress Testing

Finishing Touches

• Electrolyte Disturbances
• Hypothermia
• Drugs
• Other Cardiac Disorders
• Pulmonary Disorders
• Central Nervous System Disease
• The Athlete's Heart

Putting It All Together

• The 11-Step Method for Reading EKGs
• Review Charts

Practice EKG Strips

Index

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