Pocket Reference for ECGs Made Easy

✍ Scribed by Barbara Aehlert

• Publisher: Mosby / Elsevier
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 133
• Edition: 5th Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Put essential ECG information at your fingertips! Based on Barbara Aehlert’s popular ECGs Made Easy, 5th Edition, this full-color pocket reference makes it easy to identify ECG rhythms and highlights basic information on cardiac conditions that cause dysrhythmias. Each rhythm includes a brief description, a summary of the characteristics of the rhythm, and a sample rhythm strip. A handy, compact size makes this reference ideal for use in the field!

Brief, condensed information provides essential ECG guidelines at a glance.
Numerous tables, boxes, and illustrations highlight and summarize key information.
UPDATED content and illustrations reflect changes to ECGs Made Easy, 5th Edition.

✦ Table of Contents

Front cover......Page 1
Pocket Reference for ECGs Made Easy Fifth Edition......Page 2
Copyright page......Page 3
Preface......Page 4
Acknowledgments......Page 5
About the Author......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
STRUCTURE OF THE HEART......Page 10
THE HEART’S BLOOD SUPPLY......Page 14
ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES......Page 15
THE HEART AS A PUMP......Page 17
CARDIAC CELLS......Page 22
CARDIAC ACTION POTENTIAL......Page 23
REFRACTORY PERIODS......Page 25
CONDUCTION SYSTEM......Page 26
THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM......Page 29
WAVEFORMS......Page 37
SEGMENTS......Page 39
INTERVALS......Page 41
SYSTEMATIC RHYTHM INTERPRETATION......Page 42
SINUS RHYTHM......Page 48
SINUS BRADYCARDIA......Page 49
SINUS TACHYCARDIA......Page 50
SINUS ARRHYTHMIA......Page 51
SINOATRIAL BLOCK......Page 52
SINUS ARREST......Page 53
PREMATURE ATRIAL COMPLEXES......Page 55
WANDERING ATRIAL PACEMAKER......Page 57
MULTIFOCAL ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA......Page 58
ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA......Page 60
ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA......Page 63
ATRIOVENTRICULAR REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA......Page 65
ATRIAL FLUTTER......Page 67
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION......Page 68
5 Junctional Rhythms......Page 70
PREMATURE JUNCTIONAL COMPLEXES......Page 71
JUNCTIONAL ESCAPE BEATS/RHYTHM......Page 72
ACCELERATED JUNCTIONAL RHYTHM......Page 74
JUNCTIONAL TACHYCARDIA......Page 75
PREMATURE VENTRICULAR COMPLEXES......Page 77
VENTRICULAR ESCAPE BEATS/RHYTHM......Page 79
ACCELERATED IDIOVENTRICULAR RHYTHM......Page 81
VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA......Page 82
ASYSTOLE......Page 85
ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCKS......Page 87
INTRAVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION DELAYS²......Page 96
PERMANENT PACEMAKERS AND IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATORS......Page 101
TEMPORARY PACEMAKERS......Page 102
PACING LEAD SYSTEMS......Page 103
PACEMAKER CODES......Page 106
INTRODUCTION......Page 110
VECTORS......Page 111
ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES......Page 112
PREDICTING THE SITE OF CORONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION²......Page 114
ANALYZING THE 12-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAM......Page 115
Illustration Credits......Page 118
References......Page 121
Index......Page 122

✦ Subjects

Emergency Medical Services; Cardiology