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The ECG Workbook 2nd Edition
Author(s): Angela Rowlands (Author), Andrew Sargent (Author)
- Publisher: M&K Update Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2011
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 108 pages
- ISBN-10: 1905539770
- ISBN-13: 9781905539772
Book Description
Many books on ECG interpretation use simulated ECG tracings. Most of the traces that you find in this book are from real people and of the quality that you will be expected to interpret from in practice. The second edition of worldwide popular The ECG Workbook continues with a straightforward, systematic approach to ECG interpretation and includes:- TWO NEW chapters Common Arrhythmias explains five of the most common types of arrhythmia: Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Flutter, Ventricular Tachycardia, Supraventricular Tachycardia and Ventricular Fibrillation, and a whole chapter is devoted to Ectopics and Extrasystoles. Contents include: Recording a readable electrocardiogram (ECG) The electrical conducting system of the heart A systematic approach to rhythm strip analysis Heart blocks Common Arrhythmias Ectopics and Extrasystoles The 12 lead ECG Axis deviation Ischaemia, injury and necrosis Sites of infarction Bundle branch blocks Chamber enlargement A systematic approach to ECG interpretation Enhanced by real-life ECGs Many books on ECG interpretation use simulated ECG tracings. Most of the traces that you find in this book are from real people and of the quality that you will be expected to interpret from in practice.
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About the Author
Angela Rowlands, Lecturer, St Barts and the Royal London Medical School, Queen Mary University of London Andrew Sargent, Lecturer, Critical Care Nursing at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King s College London
