The ECG Made Easy
- 10th Edition - May 27, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: John Hampton, Joanna Hampton, David Adlam
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 7 8 3 - 2
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 7 6 6 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 8 1 0 - 5
The ECG Made Easy, Tenth Edition hailed as a ‘medical classic’ by the British Medical Journal, has reached its 50th anniversary. It has been translated into more than a d… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe ECG Made Easy, Tenth Edition hailed as a ‘medical classic’ by the British Medical Journal, has reached its 50th anniversary. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has now sold more than three quarters of a million copies.
This book is a firm favourite of medical, nursing and paramedic students as it provides clear, easy to follow information on all aspects of using the ECG in clinical practice.
This tenth edition has been fully updated for all healthcare professionals, for those who are still in training, and for those already practising. It is essential reading for all those who use ECGs in their day to day work. It is an easy, practical and informative guide to performing, interpreting and reporting ECGs.
This book is a firm favourite of medical, nursing and paramedic students as it provides clear, easy to follow information on all aspects of using the ECG in clinical practice.
This tenth edition has been fully updated for all healthcare professionals, for those who are still in training, and for those already practising. It is essential reading for all those who use ECGs in their day to day work. It is an easy, practical and informative guide to performing, interpreting and reporting ECGs.
- The first part distils the bare essentials with minimal theory and maximum practicality.
- The second part explains the theory underpinning the recording of an ECG in order to start basic interpretation of the 12 leads.
- The third part includes the clinical interpretation of individual ECGs in patients with chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations and syncope as well as understanding the normal variations in ECGs recorded from healthy subjects.
- All ECGs used in the book are taken from real patients from the authors’ clinical practice.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- How to use this book
- Preface
- Introduction: Making the most of the ECG
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Part 1. The ECG Made Very Easy Indeed: A Beginner’s Guide
- 1. The ECG made very easy indeed
- What is an ECG?
- When do you need an ECG?
- How to record an ECG?
- How to interpret an ECG: The basics
- Patterns you must be able to recognize
- Part 2. The Basics: The Fundamentals of ECG Recording, Reporting and Interpretation
- 2. What the ECG is about
- What to expect from the ECG
- The electricity of the heart
- The different parts of the ECG
- The ECG: Electrical pictures
- The shape of the QRS complex
- Making a recording: Practical points
- ECG calibration
- How to report an ECG
- 3. The rhythm of the heart
- Section 1: Rhythm anaylsis using 12 L ECGs
- The intrinsic rhythmicity of the heart
- Abnormal rhythms
- The bradycardias: The slow rhythms
- Extrasystoles
- The tachycardias: The fast rhythms
- Fibrillation
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
- The origins of tachycardias
- What to do
- Section 2: Interpretation of single lead ECGs
- The identification of rhythm abnormalities
- 4. Conduction and its problems
- Conduction problems in the AV node and his bundle
- Conduction problems in the right and left bundle branches: Bundle branch block
- Conduction problems in the distal parts of the left bundle branch
- What to do
- 5. Abnormalities of P waves, QRS complexes and T waves
- The P wave
- The QRS complex
- The ST segment
- Abnormalities of the ST segment
- The T wave
- Other abnormalities of the ST segment and the T wave
- Part 3. Making the Most of the ECG: The Clinical Interpretation of Individual ECGs
- 6. The ECG in healthy subjects
- The normal cardiac rhythm
- The P wave
- Conduction
- The QRS complex
- The ST segment
- The T wave
- U waves
- The ECG in athletes
- 7. The ECG in patients with chest pain or breathlessness
- The ECG in patients with constant chest pain
- The ECG in patients with intermittent chest pain
- The ECG in patients with breathlessness
- 8. The ECG in patients with palpitations or syncope
- The ECG after a syncopal episode when the patient has no symptoms
- The ECG when the patient has symptoms at the time of recording
- Pacemakers
- Cardiac arrest
- Part 4. Now Test Yourself
- 9. ECGs you must be able to recognize
- ECGs with clinical scenarios
- ECG descriptions and interpretations
- Quick reminder guide
- Glossary
- Index
- Flowchart
- Edition: 10
- Published: May 27, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 210
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323937832
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323937665
- eBook ISBN: 9780323938105
JH
John Hampton
John Hampton is Emeritus Professor of Cardiology at University of Nottingham, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor of Cardiology, University of Nottingham, UKJH
Joanna Hampton
Joanna Hampton is Consultant Physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK