Chou's Electrocardiography in Clinical Practice, Adult and Pediatric

Here’s a user-friendly, readable introduction to the study of electrocardiography. It guides you in capturing and interpreting ECGs, with an eye towards clinical correlation for easy application to your practice. New in this edition are increased content on pediatric ECGs, implantable cardiodefibrillators, and pacemakers.

Features

* Guides you on how to capture and interpret all normal and abnormal rhythms, creating an excellent foundation for understanding ECGs.
* Covers the management of adult and pediatric rhythm disorders and their clinical correlations.

What's New

* Contains new chapters on pediatric rhythm problems and on pacemakers.
* Discusses cardiac rhythm problems associated with the athletic heart, obesity and pediatric heart failure.
* Incorporates new material on interpreting the rhythm problems associated with implantable cardiodefibrillator devices (ICDs).

Contents

SECTION I ADULT ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY
1 Normal Electrocardiogram: Origin and Description
2 Atrial Abnormalities
3 Ventricular Enlargement
4 Left Bundle Branch Block
5 Right Bundle Branch Block
6 Other Intraventricular Conduction Disturbances
7 Acute Ischemia: Electrocardiographic Patterns
8 Myocardial Infarction and Electrocardiographic Patterns Simulating Myocardial Infarction
9 Non-Q Wave Myocardial Infarction, Unstable Angina Pectoris, Myocardial Ischemia
10 Stress Test
11 Pericarditis and Cardiac Surgery
12 Diseases of the Heart and Lungs
13 Sinus Rhythms
14 Atrial Rhythms
15 Atrial Flutter and Atrial Fibrillation
16 Atrioventricular Junctional Rhythms
17 Ventricular Arrhythmias
18 Torsade de Pointes, Ventricular Fibrillation, and Differential Diagnosis of Wide QRS Tachycardias
19 Atrioventricular Block; Concealed Conduction; Gap Phenomenon
20 Ventricular Preexcitation (Wolff Parkinson-White Syndrome and Its Variants)
21 Effect of Drugs on the Electrocardiogram
22 Electrolytes, Temperature, Central Nervous System Diseases, and Miscellaneous Effects
23 T Wave Abnormalities
24 QT Interval, U Wave Abnormalities, and Cardiac Alternans
25 Misplacement of Leads and Electrocardiographic Artifacts
26 Artificial Electronic Pacemakers
27 Ambulatory Electrocardiography
SECTION II PEDIATRIC ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY
28 Normal Electrocardiograms in Infants and Children
29 Abnormal Electrocardiograms in Infants and Children
30 Congenital Heart Diseases
31 Cardiac Arrhythmias in Infants and Children

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