For over forty years The ECG Made Easy has been regarded as the best introductory guide to the ECG, with sales of over half a million copies as well as being translated into more than a dozen languages. Hailed by the British Medical Journal as a "medical classic", it has been a favourite of generations of medical and health care staff who require clear, basic knowledge about the ECG. This famous book encourages the reader to accept that the ECG is easy to understand and that its use is just a natural extension of taking the patient’s history and performing a physical examination. It directs users of the electrocardiogram to straightforward and accurate identification of normal and abnormal ECG patterns.
Key Features
A practical and highly informative guide to a difficult subject.
Provides a full understanding of the ECG in the diagnosis and management of abnormal cardiac rhythms.
Emphasises the role of the full 12 lead ECG with realistic reproduction of recordings.
The unique page size allows presentation of 12-lead ECGs across a single page for clarity.
Author(s): John Hampton, Joanna Hampton
Series: Made Easy
Edition: 9
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 2019
Language: English
Commentary: CONVERTED PDF
Tags: ECG; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Diseases
Title Page
Table of Contents
Copyright
How to use this book
Part 1: The ECG made very easy indeed: a beginner's guide
Part 2: The basics: the fundamentals of ECG recording, reporting and interpretation
Part 3: Making the most of the ECG: the clinical interpretation of individual ECGs
Part 4: Now test yourself
Quick reminders
Further reading
Preface
Part 1 The ECG made very easy indeed: a beginner's guide
1 The ECG made very easy indeed
What is an ECG?
When do you need an ECG?
How to record an ECG?
How to interpret an ECG: the basics
Rhythms you must be able to recognize
Patterns you must be able to recognize
The normal ECG and its variants
ECG red flags
Part 2 The basics: the fundamentals of ECG recording, reporting and interpretation
2 What the ECG is about
What to Expect from the ECG
The electricity of the heart
The different parts of the ECG
The ECG – electrical pictures
The shape of the QRS complex
Making a recording – practical points
How to report an ECG
3 Conduction and its problems
Conduction problems in the AV node and His bundle
Conduction problems in the right and left bundle branches – bundle branch block
Conduction problems in the distal parts of the left bundle branch
What to do
4 The rhythm of the heart
The intrinsic rhythmicity of the heart
Abnormal rhythms
The bradycardias – the slow rhythms
Extrasystoles
The tachycardias – the fast rhythms
Fibrillation
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
The origins of tachycardias
What to do
The Identification of Rhythm Abnormalities
5 Abnormalities of P waves, QRS complexes and T waves
Abnormalities of the P wave
Abnormalities of the QRS complex
Abnormalities of the ST segment
Abnormalities of the T wave
Other abnormalities of the ST segment and the T wave
Part 3 Making the most of the ECG: the clinical interpretation of individual ECGs
6 The ECG in healthy subjects
The normal cardiac rhythm
The P wave
Conduction
The QRS complex
The ST segment
The T wave
U waves
The ECG in athletes
7 The ECG in patients with chest pain or breathlessness
The ECG in patients with constant chest pain
The ECG in patients with intermittent chest pain
The ECG in patients with breathlessness
8 The ECG in patients with palpitations or syncope
The ECG when the patient has no symptoms
The ECG when the patient has symptoms
Pacemakers
Cardiac arrest
Part 4 Now test yourself
9 ECGs you must be able to recognize
ECG descriptions and interpretations
Index
Quick Reminder Guide
When reporting an ECG, remember
What to Look for
Glossary
