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• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• How to use this book
• Preface
• Introduction: Making the most of the ECG
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Part 1. The ECG Made Very Easy Indeed: A Beginner’s Guide
• 1.  The ECG made very easy indeed
• What is an ECG?
• When do you need an ECG?
• How to record an ECG?
• How to interpret an ECG: The basics
• Patterns you must be able to recognize
• Part 2. The Basics: The Fundamentals of ECG Recording, Reporting and Interpretation
• 2.  What the ECG is about
• What to expect from the ECG
• The electricity of the heart
• The different parts of the ECG
• The ECG: Electrical pictures
• The shape of the QRS complex
• Making a recording: Practical points
• ECG calibration
• How to report an ECG
• 3.  The rhythm of the heart
• Section 1: Rhythm anaylsis using 12 L ECGs
• The intrinsic rhythmicity of the heart
• Abnormal rhythms
• The bradycardias: The slow rhythms
• Extrasystoles
• The tachycardias: The fast rhythms
• Fibrillation
• Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
• The origins of tachycardias
• What to do
• Section 2: Interpretation of single lead ECGs
• The identification of rhythm abnormalities
• 4.  Conduction and its problems
• Conduction problems in the AV node and his bundle
• Conduction problems in the right and left bundle branches: Bundle branch block
• Conduction problems in the distal parts of the left bundle branch
• What to do
• 5.  Abnormalities of P waves, QRS complexes and T waves
• The P wave
• The QRS complex
• The ST segment
• Abnormalities of the ST segment
• The T wave
• Other abnormalities of the ST segment and the T wave
• Part 3. Making the Most of the ECG: The Clinical Interpretation of Individual ECGs
• 6.  The ECG in healthy subjects
• The normal cardiac rhythm
• The P wave
• Conduction
• The QRS complex
• The ST segment
• The T wave
• U waves
• The ECG in athletes
• 7.  The ECG in patients with chest pain or breathlessness
• The ECG in patients with constant chest pain
• The ECG in patients with intermittent chest pain
• The ECG in patients with breathlessness
• 8.  The ECG in patients with palpitations or syncope
• The ECG after a syncopal episode when the patient has no symptoms
• The ECG when the patient has symptoms at the time of recording
• Pacemakers
• Cardiac arrest
• Part 4. Now Test Yourself
• 9.  ECGs you must be able to recognize
• ECGs with clinical scenarios
• ECG descriptions and interpretations
• Quick reminder guide
• Glossary
• Index
• Flowchart