Andrew Houghton

Making Sense of the ECG

A Hands-On Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This popular, easy-to-read and easy-to-remember guide to the ECG as a tool for diagnosis and management has been fully updated in its sixth edition to reflect the latest guidelines, with new chapters added covering 'Reading an ECG recording' and 'Ten ECGs not to miss'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 6. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032735528
• ISBN-10: 103273552X
• Artikelnr.: 71184646

Autorenporträt

Dr Andrew R Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in cardiology in Nottingham and Leicester. He has also trained at Stanford University in California and at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, in 2002. His subspecialty interest is in cardiac imaging (echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI). He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London). He has published several textbooks in cardiology, including Making Sense of the ECG (winner of the Royal Society of Medicine's Richard Asher Prize and the BMA's Student Textbook Award), Making Sene of the ECG: Cases for Self Assessment and Making Sense of Echocardiography (Highly Commended at the BMA's Medical Book Awards).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the sixth edition.
About the author.
Acknowledgements.
1. Anatomy and physiology. 2. PQRST: Where the waves come from. 3.
Performing an ECG recording. 4. Reading an ECG recording. 5. Heart rate.
6. An approach to heart rhythms. 7. The axis. 8. The P wave. 9. The PR
interval. 10. The Q wave. 11. The QRS complex. 12. The ST segment. 13. The
T wave. 14. The QT interval. 15. The U wave. 16. Artefacts on the ECG. 17.
Supraventricular rhythms. 18. Ventricular rhythms. 19. Conduction problems.
20. Reporting an ECG recording. 21. ECG interpretation in athletes. 22.
Cardiac implantable electronic devices. 23. Ambulatory ECG recording. 24.
Exercise ECG testing. 25. Ten ECGs not to miss.
Appendix 1: Glossary
Appendix 2: ECG resources
Index.