Patrick Davey Department of Cardiology, Northampton General Hospital, UK £11.99,  978-1-85315-535-2,  352pp,  Paperback,  August 2004

doctors.net
The advice and interpretation given is useful, wise and appropriate and is the type of information that one only picks up through years in the job. The book is full of clear common sense and clinical pearls. I highly recommend this book. It is compulsory reading for anyone involved in making clinical decisions based on ECG interpretation. It should be read by physicians, anaesthetists and others and will be invaluable to medical SHOs and registrars making decisions. I wish it had been around when I was training but better late than never.

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This book is targeted towards clinicians, residents, interns, nurses, and medical students. This book provides great insight and understanding of electrocardiography. The text, the illustrations, the diagrams, and the tables are succinctly integrated in this book. Reading it is effortless. This book is so concise and instructive in its explanation of electrocardiograms that clinicians of all specialties should read it.
4 stars

The ECG is one of the most fundamental tools used in medicine. Written from the perspective of clinical decision making the book aims to provide you with a clinical overview of the role of the ECG in modern cardiology, the book also highlights its uses and limitations. Used correctly the ECG allows great insights into the functioning of the heart, but used incorrectly it can lead the unwary clinician into all sorts of errors. The aim of this book is to provide the information that will turn you into a ‘savvy’ ECG reader, one who can handle the ECG calmly, confidently and accurately.

Packed with informative diagrams and illustrations, examples of ECGs in different conditions, this book explains the principles of the ECG and how shows how interpretation depends critically on clinical circumstances.

Full clinical information encourages the reader to interpret the ECG confidently and effectively in a variety of different clinical situations.

Contents include:

° Introduction to the ECG
° Abnormalities of the P wave
° Abnormalities of QRS complex
° Abnormalities of the ST segment and the T wave
° ECG in chest pain
° ECG in breathlessness
° Palpitations
° Syncope and the ECG
° Arrhythmias and the ECG
° ECG in ischaemic heart disease
° Exercise stress ECG
° ECG devices for remote recording of arrhythmias
° Provocative electrophysiological studies
° ECG in miscellaneous conditions
° Pacemakers and the ECG

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This book is recommended to a wide variety of healthcare professionals including medical and nursing students, junior and senior doctors, CCU and ITU nurses, cardiac physiologists, specialist chest-pain and heart-failure nurses.

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