Over 75 exceptional electrocardiogram case studies curated from the libraries of 60 internationally recognized master teachers of ECG interpretation are brought together in this one-of-a-kind resource for student and teacher alike.
Organized by disease type, ECG case studies are presented in a clinical context followed by questions and discussion. Medical students, residents, fellows, physicians — anyone who is involved in caring for patients with various cardiovascular diseases and other systemic pathologies — will find this unique collection with a global perspective useful and practical in developing the skills necessary to reading ECGs.
Table of Content
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 1 Introduction to the Interpretation of the Electrocardiogram
Section
2 Conduction Disturbances: Sinus Node Disease/Sick Sinus Syndrome, AV
Conduction Disturbances, AV Blocks, Bundle Branch Blocks, and Fascicular
Blocks
Section 3 Miscellaneous Phenomena: Concealed Conduction,
Superabnormalities, Aberrancy Conduction, Premature Atrial and
Ventricular Contractions (PACs and PVCs)
Section 4 Preexcitation Syndromes
Section 5 Early Repolarization (ECG Pattern and the Syndrome)
Section 6 Long and Short QT Syndromes
A. Long QT Syndrome
C. Torsades de Pointes
Section 7 Brugada Syndrome
Section 8 Narrow QRS Complex Arrhythmias
C. Atrial Tachycardia/Atrial Flutter
D. Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
G. Junctional Rhythms
Section 9 Wide Complex Arrhythmias
A. Ventricular Tachycardia/Fibrillation
C. Preexcited Tachycardia
Section 10 Ischemia and Infarction
Section 12 Paced Rhythms and Device Troubleshooting
Section 13 Heart Failure, LVH, and Cardiomyopathies
A. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C)
G. Pericarditis
Section 15 Special Considerations: Age, Race, Gender, and Athletes
Section 16 Syncope and ECG Troubleshooting
About the author
Editors:Mohammad Shenasa, MDAttending Physician, Department of Cardiovascular Services, O’Conner Hospital;
Heart & Rhythm Medical Group, San Jose, California
Mark E. Josephson, MD
Director, Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute and Arrhythmia Service; Chief Emeritus, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Herman C. Dana Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
N. A. Mark Estes III, MD
Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Director, New England Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD
Distinguished Professor, Associate Chief (academic affairs), Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California
Melvin Scheinman, MD
Professor of Medicine, Walter H. Shorenstein Endowed Chair in Cardiology; Chief of Cardiology Genetics Arrhythmia Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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