McGraw-Hill's Pocket Guide to ECGs focuses on the practical elements of interpreting ECGs for the non-specialist audience, with particular reference to medical students, GPs and hospital. It includes an extensive selection of examples of ECGs and present abnormal and normal scenarios with analysis of their components and appearance. Each interpretation follows a systematic, recommended approach that lends itself to a clinical context.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Section 1. The normal ECG
ECG standard conventions
Recording lead positions
Steps in interpreting of an ECG and normal values
Section 2. Common abnormalitites
Heart rate
Rhythm
P waves
PR interval
QRS complex duration prolonged
ST segments abnormal
ST segment depression
T waves
QT interval abnormal
Section 3. Diagnostic features of common disorders (a quick reference)
Atrial fibrillation
Atrial flutter
Atrial ectopics
Ventricular ectopics
Bigeminy
Ventricular tachycardia
Supraventricular tachycardia
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Junctional rhythm
Left bundle branch block (LBBB)
Right bundle branch block (RBBB)
Right bundle branch block (partial)
Left anterior fascicular (hemi) block
Left posterior fascicular (hemi) block
Acute anterior myocardial infarction
Acute anterolateral myocardial infarction
Acute inferior myocardial infarction
Acute posterior myocardial infarction
Old myocardial infarction
Myocardial ischaemia
First-degree atrioventricular block
Second-degree atrioventricular block (Mobitz type 1, Wenckebach phenomenon)
Second-degree atrioventricular block (Mobitz type 2)
Third-degree atrioventricular (complete heart block)
Right ventricular hypertrophy
Left ventricular hypertrophy
Pericarditis
Pericardial effusion
