


Paperback
Published: 1st December 2006
ISBN: 9780803610439
Number Of Pages: 384
Use analogies to make basic ECG concepts comprehensible and memorable for your students! The anatomy of the heart is like a house with rooms and doors. The intra-atrial and internodal pathways are like highways. Your students will absorb ECG interpretation like a sponge!This diverting, EZ-to-read approach, coupled with sound educational theory, encourages learning in students who are frustrated by the non-descriptive, formulaic writing found in most other textbooks. It's an alternative to the staid, jumpy approach found in other introductory ECG texts:
• Well written, and in a style that is lighthearted and entertaining
• A highly visual approach with illustrations and boxes that engage students
• Peppered with analogies that make learning fun
• "Building block" approach that progressively layers the content for students from simple to complex
This is the book your students will use to understand the basic concepts of ECG, develop their ability to identify rhythms (especially life-threatening ones), and learn the appropriate response to patients with life-threatening rhythms.
"I think the "Now You Know" section is crucial to summarizing what wascovered in the chapters...particularly if a person is short on time andwants to get thehighlights. I also like the fill in the blanks at the end of eachchapter.I think it's a good way to self assess...It reminds me a little of thebook I used to learn EKGs by Dubin, but I think this one is set up alittle better. It also explainsthings more clearly." -- Lauren Staple, Student Reviewer
Learning the Basics | |
A Hearty Tour | p. 2 |
Coming Up Next | p. 2 |
An Elegant Design | p. 2 |
The Value of Valves | p. 3 |
The Heart Needs Its Wheaties Too | p. 8 |
Test Yourself | p. 10 |
Now You Know | p. 11 |
(Dis)Charge It! | p. 12 |
Coming Up Next | p. 12 |
Start the Pump | p. 12 |
Keep It Going | p. 13 |
Test Yourself | p. 18 |
Now You Know | p. 18 |
The ECG Canvas | p. 19 |
Coming Up Next | p. 19 |
Doing the Background Work | p. 19 |
The Tracing Takes Shape | p. 20 |
Speed Reading | p. 22 |
Estimating Heart Rate | p. 25 |
Thinking Outside the Box | p. 30 |
Now You Know | p. 31 |
Test Yourself | p. 32 |
Location, Location, Location | p. 35 |
Coming Up Next | p. 35 |
Lines of Force | p. 35 |
In Search of an Arrow | p. 36 |
Lead and the Signal Will Follow | p. 37 |
Electrode Placement and Leads | p. 40 |
I Spy with My Little Lead | p. 41 |
Now You Know | p. 42 |
Test Yourself | p. 43 |
Getting More Technical | |
The Shape of Things to Come | p. 46 |
Coming Up Next | p. 46 |
Telling Dogs From Wolves | p. 46 |
The Perfect Wave | p. 47 |
Waves, Complexes, Segments, and Intervals | p. 52 |
Now You Know | p. 55 |
Test Yourself | p. 55 |
Cars and Carts: From P-Wave to QRS Complex | p. 59 |
Coming Up Next | p. 59 |
How to Tie a Shoelace | p. 59 |
First Comes the P-Wave | p. 59 |
The AV Node Tollbooth | p. 61 |
Variations on a P-Wave | p. 62 |
Measuring the PR Interval | p. 65 |
Now You Know | p. 68 |
Test Yourself | p. 68 |
The Intraventricular Superhighway | p. 72 |
Coming Up Next | p. 72 |
Traveling the Bundle Branch Routes | p. 72 |
Tracking the QRS Complex | p. 73 |
Measuring Tools and Techniques | p. 80 |
Now You Know | p. 86 |
Test Yourself | p. 87 |
The Language of ECG | p. 90 |
Coming Up Next | p. 90 |
Starting With the Basics | p. 90 |
A Little Less Basic | p. 93 |
Now You Know | p. 95 |
Test Yourself | p. 95 |
Rhythm Rules | p. 96 |
Coming Up Next | p. 96 |
How Many Questions? | p. 96 |
How Regular Is Regular? | p. 96 |
Fast, Slow, or Just Right? | p. 98 |
P or Not P? | p. 99 |
How Far From P to R? | p. 100 |
How Complex Is Your QRS? | p. 100 |
What Was All That Again? | p. 100 |
Why All the Questions? | p. 101 |
Now You Know | p. 101 |
Test Yourself | p. 102 |
Moving to the Rhythm | |
Sinus Rhythms | p. 106 |
Coming Up Next | p. 106 |
One Who Sets the Pace | p. 106 |
Recognizing Sinus Rhythms | p. 106 |
Sinus Discharge Can Be a Good Thing | p. 107 |
Sinus Tachycardia | p. 107 |
Sinus Bradycardia | p. 110 |
Sinus Arrhythmia | p. 113 |
Sinus Arrest and Sinus Exit Block | p. 114 |
Now You Know | p. 117 |
Test Yourself | p. 117 |
Atrial Rhythms | p. 132 |
Coming Up Next | p. 132 |
Atrial Rule: When Leadership Disagrees | p. 132 |
Those Irritable Atria | p. 132 |
A PAC Without the Politics | p. 133 |
Ectopic Atrial Pacemaker | p. 135 |
Atrial Tachycardia | p. 136 |
Wandering Atrial Pacemaker | p. 137 |
Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia | p. 140 |
Atrial Flutter | p. 141 |
A PAC With a Block | p. 142 |
Atrial Fibrillation | p. 144 |
Now You Know | p. 150 |
Test Yourself | p. 151 |
Junctional Rhythms | p. 165 |
Coming Up Next | p. 165 |
Who's Running the Government? | p. 165 |
The Supraventricular Jigsaw | p. 166 |
A Question of Origin | p. 167 |
Junctional Rhythms in a Nutshell | p. 169 |
Premature Junctional Contraction | p. 169 |
Junctional Rhythm | p. 171 |
Accelerated Junctional Rhythm | p. 173 |
Junctional Bradycardia | p. 174 |
Junctional Tachycardia | p. 175 |
Supraventricular Tachycardia: An Easy Way Out | p. 177 |
Now You Know | p. 178 |
Test Yourself | p. 178 |
Ventricular Rhythms | p. 189 |
Coming Up Next | p. 189 |
In Revolt | p. 189 |
From Highways to Back Roads | p. 189 |
Why Use the Back Roads? | p. 190 |
Premature Ventricular Contraction | p. 191 |
Idioventricular Rhythm | p. 194 |
Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm | p. 195 |
Ventricular Bradycardia | p. 197 |
Treating Low Cardiac Output | p. 198 |
Ventricular Tachycardia | p. 199 |
Multifocal Ventricular Tachycardia | p. 200 |
Ventricular Flutter | p. 201 |
Ventricular Fibrillation | p. 201 |
Asystole | p. 203 |
Now You Know | p. 209 |
Test Yourself | p. 210 |
Contemplating Conduction | |
The Mental Block of AV Blocks | p. 226 |
Coming Up Next | p. 226 |
Dissolving the Mental Block | p. 226 |
Tollbooth Trouble | p. 227 |
A Matter of Degree | p. 228 |
First-Degree Block | p. 228 |
Wenckebach | p. 229 |
Classic Second-Degree | p. 231 |
Third-Degree Block | p. 232 |
The Interpretation Tree | p. 235 |
Treating AV Blocks | p. 236 |
Now You Know | p. 238 |
Test Yourself | p. 238 |
Detours on the Intraventricular Highways | p. 246 |
Coming Up Next | p. 246 |
Frustration on the Highway | p. 246 |
Landmarks on the Long Way Home | p. 248 |
Tachycardias of the Fourth Kind | p. 251 |
Do the Valsalva | p. 253 |
QRS Complexes in Accord | p. 256 |
If It's Yellow, Waddles, and Quacks, It's Probably V-Tach | p. 256 |
Now You Know | p. 258 |
Test Yourself | p. 258 |
Taking Advanced Lessons | |
Pacemakers: Keeping the Heart from Early Retirement | p. 266 |
Coming Up Next | p. 266 |
An Electronic Superhero | p. 266 |
Would Somebody Help Me Here? | p. 266 |
Types of Pacemakers | p. 267 |
Decoding the Code | p. 268 |
Lead by Example | p. 270 |
Think Like a Pacemaker | p. 274 |
Recognizing Trouble | p. 277 |
I Can Name that Pacemaker in Four Beats | p. 280 |
Now You Know | p. 284 |
Test Yourself | p. 285 |
Some Artifacts Aren't Rare or Valuable | p. 294 |
Coming Up Next | p. 294 |
Snow in Your House | p. 294 |
Check Your Patient | p. 294 |
Under the Influence | p. 300 |
The Ghost in the Machine | p. 302 |
Know What You're Dealing With | p. 305 |
Now You Know | p. 306 |
Test Yourself | p. 306 |
Timing Really is Everything | p. 314 |
Coming Up Next | p. 314 |
What's a QT Interval? | p. 314 |
Measuring the QT Interval | p. 314 |
Too Long a Rest | p. 315 |
Pacemakers and the QT Interval | p. 317 |
Shocking News on the QT | p. 321 |
Now You Know | p. 324 |
Test Yourself | p. 325 |
Are There Really Three I's in MI? | p. 328 |
Coming Up Next | p. 328 |
Shifting Focus | p. 328 |
An Advanced Lesson in Plumbing | p. 328 |
The Three I's | p. 329 |
The Sensitive T-Wave | p. 332 |
The Rise and Fall of the ST Segment | p. 334 |
Treating Myocardial Infarctions | p. 340 |
Now You Know | p. 343 |
Test Yourself | p. 344 |
Cutting Through the Haze | p. 347 |
Coming Up Next | p. 347 |
Sorting Things Out | p. 347 |
Irregular Rhythms With P-Waves | p. 347 |
Artifact or Ventricular Tachycardia? | p. 349 |
Absent P-Waves | p. 350 |
Blocking AV Block Errors | p. 351 |
Ventricular Fibrillation or Asystole? | p. 354 |
Antidisestablishmentarianism | p. 354 |
Now You Know | p. 357 |
Post Test Questions | p. 360 |
Post Test Answers | p. 427 |
Heart Rate Tables | p. 457 |
Glossary | p. 453 |
Suggested Readings | p. 463 |
Answer Key | p. 470 |
Index | p. 512 |
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ISBN: 9780803610439
ISBN-10: 0803610432
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 384
Published: 1st December 2006
Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 27.79 x 21.95
x 2.29
Weight (kg): 1.25