Content: How to --
Introduction & helpful hints --
Applications of the electrocardiogram --
Circulation system --
Conduction system --
Five physiologic properties of cardiac muscle --
Electrocardiogram: definition --
What is a lead, anyway? --
Generation of the electrocardiogram --
Electrocardiographic recording technique --
ECG paper & standardization --
Calculating the heart rate --
Measuring the P-QRS-T --
Canine ECG normal values --
Feline ECG normal values --
Quick & dirty guide to ECG enlargements & bundle branch blocks --
Classification of arrhythmias --
Building blocks for arrhythmia interpretation --
Interpreting arrhythmias: the easy way --
Electrocardiographic examples --
Normal sinus impulse formation --
Normal sinus rhythm --
Sinus arrhythmia --
Disturbances of sinus impulse formation --
Sinus bradycardia --
Sinus tachycardia --
Disturbances of supraventricular impulse formation --
Atrial premature complexes --
Atrial tachycardia --
Atrial fibrillation --
Atrioventricular (AV) junctional premature --
Complexes & tachycardia --
Disturbances of ventricular impulse formation --
Ventricular premature complexes --
Ventricular tachycardia --
Ventricular asystole --
Ventricular fibrillation --
Disturbances of impulse conduction --
Sinus arrest or block --
Sick sinus syndrome --
Atrial standstill --
Ventricular pre-excitation & Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome --
Secret to atrioventricular blocks --
First-degree atrioventricular block --
Second-degree atrioventricular block --
Third-degree atrioventricular block --
Left bundle branch block --
Right bundle branch block --
Escape rhythms --
Junctional & ventricular escape rhythms --
Miscellaneous disturbances --
Pericardial effusion (low voltage QRS complexes & electrical alternans) --
ST segment & T wave changes --
Artifacts --
Anti-arrhythmic drugs.