This outstanding text and workbook is the leading reference for students, practicing nurses, paramedics, and other health professionals learning ECG interpretation. Thoroughly updated with new figures and easy-to-follow text, ECG Workout is an excellent guide to rhythm analysis that builds on the student's knowledge in a step-by-step fashion to broaden understanding of essential ECG concepts and hone the skills necessary to confidently and accurately interpret ECG waveforms. Coverage includes cardiac anatomy and physiology, electrophysiology, waveforms, arrhythmias, and pacemakers.
The book includes over 600 ECG strips illustrating a wide variety of conditions, end-of-chapter practice tests, a comprehensive posttest, a glossary, and answer keys at the back of the book. Handy bonus flashcards provide additional practice. The latest ACLS guidelines are also included.
Get the knowledge you need to meet the challenges of ECG interpretation with:
- Over 600 actual-sized practice rhythm strips – more than any other guide on the market!
- Clear, thorough overviews of anatomy, physiology, and electrophysiology.
- Identification of principal waveform components and scores of illustrations for essential ECG concepts.
- Easy, five-step method for analyzing any rhythm strip.
- Chapters covering the most common arrhythmias, - sinus arrhythmias, atrial arrhythmias, junctional arrhythmias and AV blocks, ventricular arrhythmias.
- Bundle-branch blocks, pacemakers – all with typical waveforms.
- Hardwire and telemetry monitoring equipment and troubleshooting tips.
Plus …
- Comprehensive post-test to evaluate what you’ve learned.
- Handy pocket ECG conversion card for more precise heart rate calculation.
- Online PowerPoint® chapter reviews and flash cards.
New in this edition
- NEW: Skill-building approach to learning, with new "Skill builder" practice rhythm strips in select chapters.
- Chapter 7 (Atrial Arrhythmias) includes 25 mixed practice strips - sinus and atrial strips - helping students distinguish between the two types of rhythms
- Chapter 8 (Junctional Arrhythmias and AV Blocks) includes a mixture of additional practice strips - atrial, junctional, and heart block - building on information from the preceding chapter
- Chapter 9 (Ventricular Arrhythmias and Bundle Branch Blocks) goes one step further to include a mix of yet more practice strips - sinus, atrial, junctional, heart block, and ventricular - encouraging students to apply recently learned concepts and skills
- NEW: Chapter 10 (Pacemakers) extensively revised to include permanent pacemaker strips and temporary venous strips
Contents
- Anatomy and physiology of the heart
- Electrophysiology
- Waveforms, intervals, segments, and complexes
- Cardiac monitors
- Analyzing a rhythm strip
- Sinus arrhythmias
- Atrial arrhythmias
- Junctional arrhythmias and AV blocks
- Ventricular arrhythmias and bundle-branch block
- Pacemakers
- Posttest
- Appendices: Answer keys to Practice strips and Skill-building strips
- Glossary
- Electrocardiographic conversion table for heart rate
About the Author
- Jane Huff RN, CCRN, Education Coordinator, Critical Care Unit, Arrhythmia Instructor, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Instructor, White County Medical Center, Searcy, AR.
Product Details
- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Sixth edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1451115539
- ISBN-13: 978-1451115536
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 1 inches
List Price: $49.95