Medical students encounter many challenges on their path to success, from managing their time, applying theory to practice, and passing exams. The Medical Student Survival Skills series helps medical students navigate core subjects of the curriculum, providing accessible, short reference guides for OSCE preparation and hospital placements. These guides are the perfect tool for achieving clinical success.
Medical Student Survival Skills: ECG is an indispensable resource for students new to ECG interpretation and cardiac arrhythmia recognition and treatment. Integrating essential clinical knowledge with practical OSCE advice, this portable guide provides concise and user-friendly coverage of all aspects of ECG monitoring, including atrial and ventricular fibrillation, myocardial infarction, and 12 lead ECG interpretation. Easy-to-find information, plentiful illustrations, OSCE checklists and expert discussions of actual ECG trace examples help medical students and junior doctors quickly get up to speed with ECG interpretation skills.
Author(s): Philip Jevon, Jayant Gupta
Series: Medical Student Survival Skills
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 137
Tags: ECG
Title Page......Page 5
Copyright Page
......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
About the companion website......Page 11
PQRST complex (figure 1.2)......Page 13
Sinus rhythm (figure 1.3)......Page 14
ECG monitoring: Three ECG cable system (figure 2.1)......Page 15
ECG monitoring: Trouble shooting......Page 16
Mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias......Page 18
QRS rate?......Page 21
Relationship between P and QRS?......Page 22
Effects on patient......Page 25
Treatment......Page 26
Identifying ECG features......Page 27
Treatment......Page 28
Identifying ECG features......Page 29
Treatment......Page 30
Identifying ECG features......Page 31
Treatment......Page 32
Identifying ECG features......Page 33
Treatment......Page 34
Causes......Page 35
Treatment......Page 36
Causes......Page 39
Effects on patient......Page 40
Treatment......Page 41
Identifying ECG features......Page 43
Treatment......Page 44
Identifying ECG features......Page 45
Treatment......Page 46
Identifying ECG Features......Page 47
Treatment......Page 48
Ventricular ectopic terminology......Page 49
Treatment......Page 51
Identifying ECG features......Page 53
Treatment......Page 54
Chapter 16 Ventricular tachycardia......Page 55
Fusion and capture beats......Page 56
Treatment......Page 57
Causes......Page 59
Treatment......Page 60
Chapter 18 First degree AV block......Page 61
Treatment......Page 62
Causes......Page 63
Treatment......Page 64
Identifying ECG features......Page 65
Treatment......Page 66
Chapter 21 Third degree (complete) AV block......Page 67
Identifying ECG features......Page 68
Treatment......Page 69
Chapter 22 Ventricular fibrillation......Page 71
Treatment......Page 72
Identifying ECG features......Page 73
Treatment......Page 74
Identifying ECG features......Page 75
Treatment......Page 76
Common indications......Page 77
Procedure......Page 78
Locating the intercostal spaces for the chest leads......Page 79
Standardisation......Page 80
Chest leads......Page 83
Limb and chest leads and their relation to the surface of the heart......Page 84
Configuration of the ECG waveform......Page 85
P waves......Page 87
QRS complexes......Page 88
T waves......Page 89
Association between the P waves and QRS complexes......Page 90
Cardiac axis (figure 27.1)......Page 91
Previous ECGs......Page 92
Within minutes of myocardial infarction......Page 93
Reciprocal changes......Page 94
ECG examples of myocardial infarction......Page 95
ST segment depression......Page 99
T wave changes......Page 102
Left bundle branch block (figure 30.1)......Page 103
Right bundle branch block (figure 30.2)......Page 104
Left posterior fascicular block......Page 105
Trifascicular block (figure 30.4)......Page 106
Chapter 31 Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome......Page 109
Treatment......Page 110
Appendix A: Resuscitation council (UK) bradycardia algorithm......Page 111
Appendix B: Resuscitation council (UK) tachycardia algorithm......Page 113
Appendix C: Resuscitation council (UK) advanced life support (ALS) algorithm......Page 115
Appendix D: Vagal manoeuvres......Page 117
Shock energies......Page 119
Procedure......Page 120
Advantages......Page 123
Appendix G Appendix G: Procedure for transcutaneous pacing......Page 125
Appendix H Appendix H: Definitions......Page 127
References......Page 129
Index......Page 131
EULA......Page 137
