Pocket Guide to Electrocardiography
Mary Boudreau Conover(Author)
Mosby (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published in March 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8016-7664-2 (ISBN)
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Description
The "Pocket Guide to Electrocardiography" has been expanded and updated to provide nurses and students with up-to-date material on arrhythmia detection and identification. The book's consistent format and comprehensive presentation of material makes it an easy-to-use reference for nurses and students who wish to enhance or refresh their understanding of electrocardiography. As in the first two editions, each section has a standard organization and includes a brief overview of anatomy and physiology ECG characteristics, pathophysiology, nursing implications, variations and differential diagnosis, and treatment. Also, each chapter is preceded by an illustration of the heart with arrythmia sites anatomically highlighted in a second colour.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
217ill.
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 112 mm
Weight
176 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8016-7664-2 (9780801676642)
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Mary Boudreau Conover
Pocket Guide to Electrocardiography
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01/1998
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Content
Principles of electrocardiography; arrythmias originating in the sinus node; atrial and junctional beats and rhythms; paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia; ventricular ectopics; aberrant ventricular conduction; atrioventricular block; atrioventricular dissociation; digitalis dysrhythmias; Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome; Wellens syndrome; bundle branch block and hemiblock; myocardial infarction; acute pulmonary embolism; chamber enlargement; potassium, calcium and the ECG; emergency diagnostic monitoring; pacemaker therapy for bradycardia.