The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need is about learning. It's about keeping simple things simple and complicated things clear, concise and, yes, simple, too. It's about getting from here to there without scaring you to death, boring you to tears, or intimidating your socks off. It's about turning ignorance into knowledge, knowledge into wisdom, and all with a bit of fun.
And now here, two decades and six editions later, and The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need, still faithful to these ideals, is more popular, more widely translated and used in more medical and professional schools than ever. Each subsequent edition has added to and improved on what came before, and this latest edition is no exception. Explanations have been further clarified and, where possible, made even shorter and simpler (this book has always been about shorter and simpler) without sacrificing any of the important subtleties. Entire new sections expand on such important topics as long QT syndrome and sudden cardiac death, and the illustrative clinical cases found at the end of most chapters have been updated and new ones added. Discussions of EKG findings have been placed even more centrally in clinical contexts so that you are not getting just the dry facts and figures but, whenever possible, are put right in the middle of real-life situations in which the EKG still plays a crucial role.
It's remains a genuine joy to thank Glenn Harper, M.D., as good a cardiologist as there is on this planet of ours, for again helping to assure that this book is accurate and up to date. The editorial folks over at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins have, as always, been great to work with, and I thank them for producing what I think is the most readable and beautiful EKG book that there is.
To you readers, especially to those of you picking up this book for the first time, I hope that The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need will give you everything you require to read EKGs quickly and accurately.
Contents
Chapter 1 The Basics
Chapter 2 Hypertrophy and Enlargement of the Heart
Chapter 3 Arrthythmias
Chapter 4 Conduction Blocks
Chapter 5 Preexcitation Syndromes
Subject Index
And now here, two decades and six editions later, and The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need, still faithful to these ideals, is more popular, more widely translated and used in more medical and professional schools than ever. Each subsequent edition has added to and improved on what came before, and this latest edition is no exception. Explanations have been further clarified and, where possible, made even shorter and simpler (this book has always been about shorter and simpler) without sacrificing any of the important subtleties. Entire new sections expand on such important topics as long QT syndrome and sudden cardiac death, and the illustrative clinical cases found at the end of most chapters have been updated and new ones added. Discussions of EKG findings have been placed even more centrally in clinical contexts so that you are not getting just the dry facts and figures but, whenever possible, are put right in the middle of real-life situations in which the EKG still plays a crucial role.
It's remains a genuine joy to thank Glenn Harper, M.D., as good a cardiologist as there is on this planet of ours, for again helping to assure that this book is accurate and up to date. The editorial folks over at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins have, as always, been great to work with, and I thank them for producing what I think is the most readable and beautiful EKG book that there is.
To you readers, especially to those of you picking up this book for the first time, I hope that The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need will give you everything you require to read EKGs quickly and accurately.
Malcolm Thaler M.D
Chapter 1 The Basics
Chapter 2 Hypertrophy and Enlargement of the Heart
Chapter 3 Arrthythmias
Chapter 4 Conduction Blocks
Chapter 5 Preexcitation Syndromes
- What is Preexcitation?
- Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
- Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome
- Associated Arrhythmias
- What is a Myocardial Infarction?
- How to Diagnose a Myocardial Infarction
- Localizing the Infarct
- Non-Q Wave Myocardial Infarction
- Angina
- Limitations of the EKG in Diagnosing an Infarction
- Stress Testing
- Electrolyte Disturbance
- Hypothermia
- Drugs
- More on the QT interval
- Other Cardiac Disorders
- Pulmonary Disorders
- Central Nervous System Disease
- Sudden Cardiac Death
- The Athlete's Heart
- The 11-Step Method for Reading EKGs
- Review Charts
Subject Index
Book Details
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Sixth edition (August 19, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1605471402
- ISBN-13: 978-1605471402
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.5 inches