The ECG Made Easy

by John Hampton DM, MA, DPhil, FRCP, FFPM, FESC, Joanna Hampton MD, MA, BM, BCh, FRCP, David Adlam

Overview

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Coronary Care**

The ECG Made Easy, Tenth Edition hailed as a ‘medical classic’ by the British Medical Journal, has reached its 50^th 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.

• 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.

• New section on Single Lead ECG interpretation, increasingly seen on Smart devices.
• New flow chart to aid interpretation and reporting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323937665
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	07/23/2024
Series:	Made Easy
Edition description:	10th ed.
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	7.28(w) x 7.28(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Hampton is Emeritus Professor of Cardiology at University of Nottingham, UK.

Joanna Hampton is Consultant Physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The ECG Made Very Easy Indeed: A Beginner’s Guide
1. The ECG Made Very Easy Indeed

Part 2 The Basics: The Fundamentals of ECG Recording, Reporting and Interpretation
2. What the ECG is About
3. The Rhythm of the Heart
4. Conduction and its Problems
5. Abnormalities of P Waves, QRS Complexes and T Waves

Part 3 Making the Most of the ECG: The Clinical Interpretation of Individual ECGs
6. The ECG in Healthy Subjects
7. The ECG in Patients With Chest Pain or Breathlessness
8. The ECG in Patients With Palpitations or Syncope

Part 4 Now Test Yourself
9. ECGs You Must Be Able to Recognize

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

The best introductory guide to the ECG

Editorial Reviews

"This pocket sized hero, the epitome of the medical classic, explains the ‘three Rs’ – rate, rhythm and right (or left) cardiac axis – in plain English and with elegant diagrams."

British Medical Journal

‘This excellent little book…is undoubtedly suited to medical students and junior house staff who are anxious to obtain a basic understanding of the ECG in a short time.’

European Heart Journal

"The ECG Made Easy has for some time been the pocket reference for junior doctors... invaluable in a clinical setting."

Nursing Standard

"A godsend to thousands of practising physicians and surgeons who have never mastered the ECG, but always felt they should have done."

European Medical Journal

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