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ECG Interpretation: An Incredibly Easy! Pocket Guide, Second Edition provides time-starved nurses with the essentials of electrocardiography in a streamlined, bulleted, and highly visual format. The book fits into a pocket for quick reference anytime and anywhere and uses charts, illustrations, logos, and other Incredibly Easy! features to help nurses spot key points at a glance. Topics include ECG basics, such as obtaining and interpreting rhythm strips; arrhythmia interpretation; pacemakers and ICDs; and 12-lead ECGs.
This revised and updated Second Edition provides expanded coverage of the 8-step interpretation method, including new illustrations. A new appendix presents ACLS algorithms.
ECG Interpretation: An Incredibly Easy! Pocket Guide provides time-starved nurses with the essentials of electrocardiography in a streamlined, bulleted, and highly visual format. The book fits into a pocket for quick reference anytime and anywhere and uses charts, illustrations, logos, and other Incredibly Easy! features to help nurses spot key points at a glance. Topics include ECG basics, such as obtaining and interpreting rhythm strips; arrhythmia interpretation; pacemakers and ICDs; and 12-lead ECGs. For each arrhythmia, causes, signs and symptoms, and pharmacologic and non pharmacologic treatment are presented. Test Zone questions and answers evaluate the reader's mastery of the subject.
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Reviewer: Karen S Yehle, PhD, MS, RN(Purdue University School of Nursing)Description: This book provides information about ECG interpretation in an easy to understood, fun manner and includes the usual ECG basics and more advanced content. There are a number of algorithms that are simple to follow.
Purpose: The unstated purpose is to provide information and to serve as a reference for ECG interpretation. This objective is laudable and the book successfully meets it.
Audience: A specific audience is not identified, but it is suitable for students and practitioners. It is written in very easy to understand language and it is very easy to locate topics in the book. Both contributors and consultants are identified, but authors for the specific sections are not listed.
Features: The authors discuss basic electrocardiography and the more common arrhythmias, as well as basic 12-lead electrocardiography and advanced ECG interpretation. A very well written section about pacemakers and ICDs is also included. Arrhythmias that can occur as a result of potassium or calcium imbalances are briefly touched upon. One shortcoming of the book is that after an abbreviation is provided for a term, only the abbreviation is used later in the text. For someone who merely desires to look up one arrhythmia or problem, for example, this can be confusing.
Assessment: This book delivers what it promises.
2 Stars from Doody
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Table of Contents
Contributors and consultants
Road map to ECG interpretation
Appendices and index
The test zone
Guide to antiarrhythmic drugs
Choosing monitoring leads
Selected references
Index