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Basic Electrocardiography: Normal and Abnormal ECG Patterns

ISBN: 978-0-470-69171-7
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184 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Foreword.

1 Introduction.

2 Usefulness And Limitations Of Electrocardiography.

3 Electrophysiological principles.

The origin of ECG morphology.

4 ECG machines: how to perform and interpret ECG.

5 Normal ECG Characteristics.

Heart rate.

Rhythm.

PR interval and segment.

QT interval.

P wave.

QRS complex.

ST segment and T wave.

Assessment of the QRS electrical axis in a frontal plane.

Rotations of the heart.

Electrocardiographic changes with age.

6 Electrocardiographic Diagnostic Criteria.

7 Atrial Abnormalities.

Right atrial enlargement.

Left atrial enlargement.

Biatrial enlargement.

Interatrial block.

8 Ventricular Enlargement.

Right ventricular enlargement.

Electrocardiographic signs of right acute overload.

Left ventricular enlargement.

Biventricular enlargement.

9 Ventricular Blocks.

Complete right bundle-branch block (RBBB).

Partial right bundle branch block.

Complete left bundle-branch block (LBBB).

Partial left bundle-branch block.

Zonal (divisional) left ventricular block.

Bifascicular blocks.

Trifascicular blocks.

10 Ventricular Preexcitation.

WPW type preexcitation.

Short PR -type preexcitation.

11 Electrocardiographic Pattern of Ischaemia, Injury and Necrosis.

Anatomic introduction.

Electrophysiological introduction.

Electrocardiographic pattern of ischaemia.

Electrocardiographic pattern of injury.

Electrocardiographic pattern of necrosis.

12 Miscellaneous.

Value of ECG in special conditions.

ECG pattern of poor prognosis.

ECG of Electrical alternans.

Self-assessment.

References.

Index