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• Instructions for online access
• Cover image
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• How to use this book
• Part 1: The ECG made very easy indeed: a beginner’s guide
• Part 2: The basics: the fundamentals of ECG recording, reporting and interpretation
• Part 3: Making the most of the ECG: the clinical interpretation of individual ECGs
• Part 4: Now test yourself
• Quick reminders
• Further reading
• Preface
• 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
• Rhythms you must be able to recognize
• Patterns you must be able to recognize
• The normal ECG and its variants
• ECG red flags
• 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
• How to report an ECG
• 3 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
• 4 The rhythm of the heart
• 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
• The Identification of Rhythm Abnormalities
• 5 Abnormalities of P waves, QRS complexes and T waves
• Abnormalities of the P wave
• Abnormalities of the QRS complex
• Abnormalities of the ST segment
• Abnormalities of 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 when the patient has no symptoms
• The ECG when the patient has symptoms
• Pacemakers
• Cardiac arrest
• Part 4 Now test yourself
• 9 ECGs you must be able to recognize
• ECG descriptions and interpretations
• Index
• Quick Reminder Guide
• When reporting an ECG, remember
• What to Look for
• Glossary