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The ECG Made Easy
- 9th Edition - May 7, 2019
- Authors: John Hampton, Joanna Hampton
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 4 6 6 - 0
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 4 5 7 - 8
For over forty years The ECG Made Easy has been regarded as the best introductory guide to the ECG, with sales of over half a million copies as well as being translated into more… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFor over forty years The ECG Made Easy has been regarded as the best introductory guide to the ECG, with sales of over half a million copies as well as being translated into more than a dozen languages. Hailed by the British Medical Journal as a "medical classic", it has been a favourite of generations of medical and health care staff who require clear, basic knowledge about the ECG. This famous book encourages the reader to accept that the ECG is easy to understand and that its use is just a natural extension of taking the patient’s history and performing a physical examination. It directs users of the electrocardiogram to straightforward and accurate identification of normal and abnormal ECG patterns.
- A practical and highly informative guide to a difficult subject.
- Provides a full understanding of the ECG in the diagnosis and management of abnormal cardiac rhythms.
- Emphasises the role of the full 12 lead ECG with realistic reproduction of recordings.
- The unique page size allows presentation of 12-lead ECGs across a single page for clarity.
- Medical students
- Nursing students
- Paramedics
- Cardiac technicians
- Cover image
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- How to use this book
- Part 1: The ECG made very easy indeed: a beginner's guide
- Part 2: The basics: the fundamentals of ECG recording, reporting and interpretation
- Part 3: Making the most of the ECG: the clinical interpretation of individual ECGs
- Part 4: Now test yourself
- Quick reminders
- Further reading
- Preface
- 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
- Rhythms you must be able to recognize
- Patterns you must be able to recognize
- The normal ECG and its variants
- ECG red flags
- 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
- How to report an ECG
- 3 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
- 4 The rhythm of the heart
- 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
- The Identification of Rhythm Abnormalities
- 5 Abnormalities of P waves, QRS complexes and T waves
- Abnormalities of the P wave
- Abnormalities of the QRS complex
- Abnormalities of the ST segment
- Abnormalities of 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 when the patient has no symptoms
- The ECG when the patient has symptoms
- Pacemakers
- Cardiac arrest
- Part 4 Now test yourself
- 9 ECGs you must be able to recognize
- ECG descriptions and interpretations
- Index
- Quick Reminder Guide
- When reporting an ECG, remember
- What to Look for
- Glossary
- No. of pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: 9
- Published: May 7, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702074660
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702074578
JH
John Hampton
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor of Cardiology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UKJH
Joanna Hampton
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge