Just the Facts: ECG Interpretation

About this book

This quick-reference handbook presents the essential need-to-know facts on ECG interpretation in an easy-to-scan bulleted format with anatomical illustrations and hundreds of waveforms in various clinical presentations. The book provides step-by-step instructions on applying electrodes selecting leads and performing 12-lead ECGs and offers guidelines for swiftly and accurately interpreting ECGs. All common arrhythmias are graphically illustrated and a rapid-scan technique for arrhythmia identification is given. Coverage includes drug effects on ECGs and how pacemaker waveforms appear on ECGs. Appendices include a quick guide to arrhythmias an overview of cardiac drugs the depolarization-repolarization cycle action potential curves the cardiac conduction system and an arrhythmia chart with best monitoring lead.