ECG Interpretation: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Application

✍ Scribed by Fred M. Kusumoto (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the last decade, there has been a tremendous improvement in our understanding of basic cardiac electrophysiology. Most introductory electrocardiogram (ECG) books teach via pattern recognition and do not incorporate new pathophysiologic information.

There is a great need for a simple book that teaches electrocardiography from a pathophysiologic basis. ECG Interpretation: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Application has been written to fill this gap. It can be utilized as a reference - chapter by chapter or read throughout for an overview. Each chapter will end with questions that provide a chapter review. Case studies are highlighted at the end of the book that integrate the multiple principles of electrocardiography.

Fred Kusumoto, MDis Associate Professor of Medicine, Electrophysiology and Pacing Service, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Cardiac anatomy and electrophysiology....Pages 1-8
Physics of electrocardiography....Pages 1-9
The normal electrocardiogram....Pages 1-13
Chamber enlargement....Pages 1-11
Conduction abnormalities in the His-Purkinje tissue....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ventricular repolarization: T waves and U waves....Pages 1-15
ST segment elevation and other ECG findings in myocardial infarction....Pages 1-29
ST segment elevation not associated with myocardial infarction....Pages 1-15
Back Matter....Pages 1-22

✦ Subjects

Cardiology