ECGs for Nurses (Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses)

✍ Scribed by Philip Jevon

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first ECG book to be aimed specifically at nurses. This practical, handy-sized guide will be useful for nurses working in all acute areas, as well as general nurses and students learning about ECGs for the first time. Real ECGs are used throughout to supplement the text. Bullet points, diagrams and self-assessment tools are features of every chapter. Accompanying every ECG trace will be a brief discussion detailing possible effects on the patient, the nurse's role and also treatment (if any) of the arrhythmia.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 The Conduction System in the Heart......Page 12
2 Principles of Cardiac Monitoring......Page 20
3 ECG Interpretation of Cardiac Arrhythmias......Page 40
4 Cardiac Arrhythmias Originating in the SA Node......Page 49
5 Cardiac Arrhythmias Originating in the Atria......Page 68
6 Cardiac Arrhythmias Originating in the AV Junction......Page 84
7 Cardiac Arrhythmias Originating in the Ventricles......Page 100
8 Cardiac Arrhythmias with Atrioventricular Block......Page 118
9 Cardiac Arrhythmias Associated with Cardiac Arrest......Page 130
10 Recording a 12 Lead ECG......Page 142
11 Interpreting a 12 Lead ECG......Page 156
12 Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias......Page 199
13 Record Keeping......Page 214
Index......Page 220