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Basic EKG-ECG & Arrhythmias Handbook - Couverture souple

Phlean, Ryan

 
9798194813575: Basic EKG-ECG & Arrhythmias Handbook

Synopsis

An EKG tracing should tell you a story—not leave you guessing at a maze of waves, boxes, and intervals.

Basic EKG-ECG & Arrhythmias Handbook gives you a systematic, clinically grounded approach to understanding cardiac electrical activity and interpreting heart rhythms with greater accuracy and confidence. Whether you are a nursing student, medical student, allied health professional, technician, or developing clinician, this handbook helps you move beyond memorizing patterns and start reasoning through what each tracing means.

Inside, you will learn how to:

  • Understand cardiac anatomy, electrophysiology, and the normal conduction pathway
  • Place leads correctly and troubleshoot artifacts and poor-quality tracings
  • Analyze rate, regularity, P waves, PR intervals, QRS complexes, and ST-T changes
  • Recognize sinus, atrial, junctional, and ventricular arrhythmias
  • Differentiate supraventricular rhythms from dangerous wide-complex rhythms
  • Identify AV blocks, bundle branch blocks, axis deviations, and chamber enlargement
  • Recognize EKG changes associated with ischemia, infarction, electrolyte disturbances, medications, and pacemakers
  • Apply a consistent six-step interpretation method to realistic clinical cases
  • Connect rhythm findings with symptoms, hemodynamic status, and appropriate clinical priorities

Structured across 16 focused chapters, the book progresses from foundational concepts to advanced 12-lead interpretation and case-based diagnostic reasoning. Chapter summaries, clinical examples, reference tables, and black-and-white instructional illustrations reinforce the essential principles.

Stop relying on isolated pattern recognition. Build a repeatable interpretation process you can apply to unfamiliar tracings—order your copy today.

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