Basic electrocardiography : normal and abnormal ECG patterns

Electrocardiography is a simple investigation to perform, but accurate interpretation can be challenging. This book takes a logical and systematic approach to ECG interpretation, beginning with the basics of normal variations and dealing in turn with atrial abnormalities, ventricular enlargement, ve...

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Main Author: Bay s de Luna, Antoni
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass Blackwell Pub 2007
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:1
Subjects:
Diagnosis
Diseases
Electrocardiography
Electrocardiography > methods
Heart
Heart > Diseases > Diagnosis
ISBN:9781405175708, 1405175702
Online Access:Get full text
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Table of Contents:
  • Basic Electrocardiography : NORMAL AND ABNORMAL ECG PATTERNS -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Usefulness and limitations of electrocardiography -- 3 Electrophysiological principles -- The origin of ECG morphology -- 4 ECG machines: how to perform and interpret ECG -- 5 Normal ECG characteristics -- Heart rate -- Rhythm -- PR interval and segment -- QT interval -- P wave -- QRS complex -- ST segment and T wave -- Assessment of the QRS electrical axis in the frontal plane -- Rotations of the heart -- Electrocardiographic changes with age -- 6 Electrocardiographic diagnostic criteria -- 7 Atrial abnormalities -- Right atrial enlargement -- Left atrial enlargement -- Biatrial enlargement -- Interatrial block -- 8 Ventricular enlargement -- Right ventricular enlargement -- Electrocardiographic signs of right acute overload -- Left ventricular enlargement -- Biventricular enlargement -- 9 Ventricular blocks -- Complete right bundle branch block (RBBB) -- Partial right bundle branch block -- Complete left bundle branch block (LBBB) -- Partial left bundle branch block -- Zonal (divisional) left ventricular block -- Bifascicular blocks -- Trifascicular blocks -- 10 Ventricular pre-excitation -- WPW-type pre-excitation -- Short PR type pre-excitation (Lown…Ganong…Levine syndrome) -- 11 Electrocardiographic pattern of ischaemia, injury and necrosis -- Anatomic introduction -- Electrophysiological introduction -- Electrocardiographic pattern of ischaemia -- Electrocardiographic pattern of injury -- Electrocardiographic pattern of necrosis -- 12 Miscellaneous -- Value of ECG in special conditions -- ECG pattern of poor prognosis -- ECG of electrical alternans -- Self-assessment -- References -- Index