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
E-Z ECG Rhythm Interpretation (Basic Step-by-Step Interpretation)
β Scribed by Henry Geiter
- Publisher
- F.A. Davis Company
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
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- 533
- Edition
- 1
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- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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 was covered in the chapters...particularly if a person is short on time and wants to get the highlights. I also like the fill in the blanks at the end of each chapter. I think it's a good way to self assess...It reminds me a little of the book I used to learn EKGs by Dubin, but I think this one is set up a little better. It also explains things more clearly." -- Lauren Staple, Student Reviewer
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover Page
......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright Page
......Page 5
PREFACE
......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 8
Contents (with page links)......Page 12
SECTION 1 LEARNING THE BASICS
......Page 17
An Elegant Design
......Page 18
The Value of Valves
......Page 19
The Heart Needs Its Wheatiesβ’ Too
......Page 24
Test Yourself
......Page 26
Now You Know
......Page 27
Start the Pump
......Page 28
Keep It Going
......Page 29
Now You Know
......Page 34
Doing the Background Work
......Page 35
The Tracing Takes Shape
......Page 36
Speed Reading
......Page 38
Estimating Heart Rate
......Page 41
Thinking Outside the Box
......Page 46
Now You Know
......Page 47
Test Yourself
......Page 48
Lines of Force
......Page 51
In Search of an Arrow
......Page 52
Lead and the Signal Will Follow
......Page 53
Electrode Placement and Leads
......Page 56
I Spy with My Little Lead
......Page 57
Now You Know
......Page 58
Test Yourself
......Page 59
SECTION 2 GETTING MORE TECHNICAL
......Page 61
Telling Dogs From Wolves
......Page 62
The Perfect Wave
......Page 63
Waves, Complexes, Segments, and Intervals
......Page 68
Test Yourself
......Page 71
First Comes the P-Wave
......Page 75
The AV Node Tollbooth
......Page 77
Variations on a P-Wave
......Page 78
Measuring the PR Interval
......Page 81
Test Yourself
......Page 84
Traveling the Bundle Branch Routes
......Page 88
Tracking the QRS Complex
......Page 89
Measuring Tools and Techniques
......Page 96
Now You Know
......Page 102
Test Yourself
......Page 103
Starting With the Basics
......Page 106
A Little Less Basic
......Page 109
Test Yourself
......Page 111
How Regular Is Regular?
......Page 112
Fast, Slow, or Just Right?
......Page 114
P or Not P?
......Page 115
What Was All That Again?
......Page 116
Now You Know
......Page 117
Test Yourself
......Page 118
SECTION 3 MOVING TO THE RHYTHM
......Page 121
Recognizing Sinus Rhythms
......Page 122
Sinus Tachycardia
......Page 123
Sinus Bradycardia
......Page 126
Sinus Arrhythmia
......Page 129
Sinus Arrest and Sinus Exit Block
......Page 130
Test Yourself
......Page 133
Those Irritable Atria
......Page 148
A PAC Without the Politics
......Page 149
Ectopic Atrial Pacemaker
......Page 151
Atrial Tachycardia
......Page 152
Wandering Atrial Pacemaker
......Page 153
Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia
......Page 156
Atrial Flutter
......Page 157
A PAC With a Block
......Page 158
Atrial Fibrillation
......Page 160
Now You Know
......Page 166
Test Yourself
......Page 167
Whoβs Running the Government?
......Page 181
The Supraventricular Jigsaw
......Page 182
A Question of Origin
......Page 183
Premature Junctional Contraction
......Page 185
Junctional Rhythm
......Page 187
Accelerated Junctional Rhythm
......Page 189
Junctional Bradycardia
......Page 190
Junctional Tachycardia
......Page 191
Supraventricular Tachycardia: An Easy Way Out
......Page 193
Test Yourself
......Page 194
From Highways to Back Roads
......Page 205
Why Use the Back Roads?
......Page 206
Premature Ventricular Contraction
......Page 207
Idioventricular Rhythm
......Page 210
Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm
......Page 211
Ventricular Bradycardia
......Page 213
Treating Low Cardiac Output
......Page 214
Ventricular Tachycardia
......Page 215
Multifocal Ventricular Tachycardia
......Page 216
Ventricular Fibrillation
......Page 217
Asystole
......Page 219
Now You Know
......Page 225
Test Yourself
......Page 226
SECTION 4 CONTEMPLATING CONDUCTION
......Page 241
Dissolving the Mental Block
......Page 242
Tollbooth Trouble
......Page 243
First-Degree Block
......Page 244
Second-Degree Block Type I (Wenckebach)
......Page 245
Second-Degree Block Type II (Classic Second-Degree)
......Page 247
Third-Degree Block
......Page 248
The Interpretation Tree
......Page 251
Treating AV Blocks
......Page 252
Test Yourself
......Page 254
Frustration on the Highway
......Page 262
Landmarks on the Long Way Home
......Page 264
Tachycardias of the Fourth Kind
......Page 267
Do the Valsalva
......Page 269
If Itβs Yellow, Waddles, and Quacks, Itβs Probably V-Tach
......Page 272
Test Yourself
......Page 274
SECTION 5 TAKING ADVANCED LESSONS
......Page 281
Would Somebody Help Me Here?
......Page 282
Types of Pacemakers
......Page 283
Decoding the Code
......Page 284
Lead by Example
......Page 286
Think Like a Pacemaker
......Page 290
Recognizing Trouble
......Page 293
I Can Name that Pacemaker in Four Beats
......Page 296
Now You Know
......Page 300
Test Yourself
......Page 301
Check Your Patient
......Page 310
Under the Influence
......Page 316
The Ghost in the Machine
......Page 318
Know What Youβre Dealing With
......Page 321
Test Yourself
......Page 322
Measuring the QT Interval
......Page 330
Too Long a Rest
......Page 331
Pacemakers and the QT Interval
......Page 333
Shocking News on the QT
......Page 337
Now You Know
......Page 340
Test Yourself
......Page 341
An Advanced Lesson in Plumbing
......Page 344
The Three Iβs
......Page 345
The Sensitive T-Wave
......Page 348
The Rise and Fall of the ST Segment
......Page 350
Treating Myocardial Infarctions
......Page 356
Now You Know
......Page 359
Test Yourself
......Page 360
Irregular Rhythms With P-Waves
......Page 363
Artifact or Ventricular Tachycardia?
......Page 365
Absent P-Waves
......Page 366
Blocking AV Block Errors
......Page 367
Antidisestablishmentarianism
......Page 370
Now You Know
......Page 373
Post Test Questions
......Page 376
Post Test Answers
......Page 443
Appendix 1: Heart Rate Tables
......Page 473
Glossary
......Page 475
Suggested Readings
......Page 485
Answer Key
......Page 486
Index
......Page 528
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