Essentials of Learning Electrocardiography: A Complete Course for the Non-Cardiologist Jules Constant Shipping Calculator Request a Quote for 10+ Copies Tell A Friend More Info... Synopsis Similar Items Customer Reviews Related Subjects Additional Description More titles by Jules Constant Retail Price: $69.95 Cardiotext Price: $68.55 Availability: Processing time varies. Price is tentative. Alert me when this product is available Availability Questions? Product Information: ISBN-13: 9781850709213 ISBN-10: 1850709211 Publisher: Informa Healthcare Format: Hardback, 232 pages Pub Date: 06/1997 Edition Number: 1

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Synopsis This is a complete textbook of electrocardiography written and illustrated expressly for non-cardiologists who need to understand ECG equipment, procedures, and terminology as well as how to produce, read, and accurately interpret ECG tracings. The book is built around clear, instructive diagrams and definitive, compact accompanying text presented in 28 chapters that begin with basic cardiac anatomy and physiology and the electrical activity of the heart, then continuing through a complete course on electrocardiography leading to the concluding chapter describing a systematic way of reading electrocardiograms.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology 1
2. Electrical Activity of the Heart 5
3. How the ECG Machine Measures Current Direction 7
4. Electrocardiographic Configuration and Nomenclature 9
5. Electrocardiographic Language of Direction 13
6. Bipolar Limb Leads 15
7. QRS Direction Recognition with the Triaxial System 21
8. Unipolar Limb Leads 25
9. Frontal Plane Hexaxial System 29
10. How to Recognize a Normal ECG in the Frontal Plane 35
11. Horizontal Plane Electrocardiogram 41
12. How to Produce a Good ECG Tracing 49
13. Initial Activation and the Septal Vector 57
14. Right Bundle Branch Block (RBBB) 61
15. Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB) 67
16. Myocardial Infarction 75
17. Initial Vector Abnormalities in Preexcitation Syndromes 89
18. Terminal QRS Changes in Myocardial Infarction 97
19. S-T Vector of Myocardial Infarction and Injury 103
20. Wave of Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia 117
21. Nonischemic T Abnormalities 125
22. Benign T Abnormalities and Syndromes 137
23. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy 143
24. Right Ventricular Hypertrophy 159
25. Arrhythmia Diagnosis. Part 1 171
26. Arrhythmia Diagnosis. Part 2 189
27. Systematic Approach to Reading an Electrocardiogram 219
Index 221