Starting to Read ECGs The Basics /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Davies, Alan (Συγγραφέας), Scott, Alwyn (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.