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1 online resource (343 pages) |
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Front Cover; Inside Front Cover; The ECG Made Practical; Copyright Page; Table Of Contents; Preface; What to expect of this book; What to expect of the ECG; Acknowledgements; 12-lead ECGs; 1 The ECG in healthy people; Types of ECG; The 'normal' ECG; The normal cardiac rhythm; The heart rate; Sinus tachycardia; Sinus bradycardia; Extrasystoles; The P wave; The PR interval; The QRS complex; The cardiac axis; The size of R and S waves in the chest leads; The width of the QRS complex; Q waves; The ST segment; The T wave; The QT interval; The ECG in athletes; The ECG in pregnancy |
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The ECG in childrenWhat is a 'normal ECG'; What to do; Further investigations; Treatment of asymptomatic ECG abnormalities; 2 The ECG in patients with palpitations and syncope; The clinical history and physical examination; Palpitations; Dizziness and syncope; Physical examination; The ECG; Syncope due to cardiac disease other than arrhythmias; Patients with possible tachycardias; Mitral stenosis; Pre-excitation syndromes; The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome; The long QT syndrome; The Brugada syndrome; Patients with possible bradycardias; Escape rhythms; Syncope |
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Potentially significant conduction abnormalities. 3 The ECG in patients with palpitations and syncope; Types of ecg monitors; Features of ambulatory ECG traces; 4 The ECG when the patient has a tachycardia; Mechanism of tachycardias; Enhanced automaticity and triggered activity; Abnormalities of cardiac rhythm due to re-entry; Differentiation between re-entry and enhanced automaticity; Extrasystoles causing symptoms; Narrow complex tachycardias causing symptoms; Atrioventricular re-entry tachycardia; AV nodal re-entry tachycardia (AVNRT); Atrial tachycardia; Atrial flutter; Atrial fibrillation |
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Broad complex tachycardias causing symptomsP waves; The QRS complex; Fusion beats and capture beats; Differentiation of broad complex tachycardias; Special forms of VT in patients with symptoms; Right ventricular outflow tract ventricular tachycardia; Torsade de pointes; Broad complex tachycardia associated with the WPW syndrome; Management of arrhythmias; Electrophysiology and catheter ablation; The endocardial ECG; Catheter ablation; Arrhythmias amenable to ablation; Atrial flutter; Atrial fibrillation; AV node ablation; Pathway ablation; Ventricular tachycardia |
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Indications for electrophysiologyCardiac arrest; ICD devices; Pacemaker function; Defibrillator function; Anti-tachycardia pacing; Indications for ICD devices; ECG appearance; Abnormal ICD function; 5 The ECG when the patient has a bradycardia; Mechanism of bradycardias; Sinoatrial disease -- the 'sick sinus syndrome'; Atrial fibrillation and flutter; AV block; The endocardial ECG in AV block; Management of bradycardias; Temporary pacing in patients with acute myocardial infarction; Permanent pacing; Pacing; Sensing; Monitoring; Pacemaker nomenclature; Right ventricular pacemakers (VVI) |
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ECG appearance |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Electrocardiography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Electrocardiography.
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Electrocardiography
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Electrocardiography.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adlam, David
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| ISBN |
9780702075452 |
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0702075450 |
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