ECG
An Introductory Course A Practical Introduction to Clinical Electrocardiography
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 1979
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 158 pages
978-3-540-09326-8 (ISBN)
Description
Since 1955, we have conducted an annual one-week ECG course at Innsbruck. This book represents a summary of our didactic experience. This English translation follows the enlarged sixth German edition. It contains many diagrams and new examples of tracings, such as the orthogonal leads system of Frank, explanation of extreme axis devia tion by the hemiblock concept, atrioventricular conduction disorders (His bundle electrogram), re-entry mechanisms, and the exercise ECG. The limits and dangers of ECG interpretations that, in our opinion, should be emphasized in an introductory presentation, are summarized in a final chapter. Our main aim was to make indigestible material palatable to the beginner; to provide him with a red thread through the labyrinth of ECG patterns by adopting a uniform approach, namely vectorial interpretation, in order to understand especially difficult areas (e. g. the differential diagnosis of infarction) by means of simplified diagrams; and to prepare him for the study of systematic textbooks. We believe that many such books should be read in order to comprehend a subject that is generally considered difficult by physicians and at the same time to promote critical understanding when called upon to evaluate an ECG in practice. The following publications to which we ourselves owe valuable suggestions, even if they are not explicitly mentioned in our text, are recommended: BELZ, G. G., STAUCH, M.: Notfall-EKG-Fibel, 2nd ed. Berlin, Heidel berg, New York: Springer 1977 BUCHNER, C. H., DRAGERT, W.: Schrittmachertherapie des Herzens.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
6 s/w Abbildungen
XII, 158 p. 6 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
201 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-09326-8 (9783540093268)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-67280-4
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An Introductory Course A Practical Introduction to Clinical Electrocardiography
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Content
1. Vectorcardiography.- 2. Usual ECG Leads and Their Interrelation.- 3. Interpretation of the "Electric" Axis of the Heart.- 4. The Normal ECG.- 4.1 The P Wave.- 4.2 The AV Interval (PQ or PR).- 4.3 The QRS Complex.- 4.3.1 QRS Amplitude.- 4.3.2 QRS Duration.- 4.3.3 QR Interval (Intrinsicoid Deflection).- 4.4 The ST-T Segment.- 4.5 The T Wave.- 4.6 The QT Interval.- 4.7 The U Wave.- 5. Memory Aid to Systematic ECG Description and Evaluation.- 6. Ventricular Conduction Disorder - Bundle Branch Block.- 6.1 Unifascicular Block.- 6.2 Bifascicular Bundle Branch Block.- 6.3 Trifascicular Blocks.- 7. The WPW Syndrome.- 8. ECG in Hypertrophy of Individual Chambers of the Heart.- 8.1 ECG in Hypertrophy of the Atria.- 8.2 ECG in Hypertrophy of the Ventricles.- 8.2.1 Depolarization.- 8.2.2 Repolarization.- 8.2.3 Position of the Cardiac Axis.- 9. ECG in Myocardial Infarction.- 9.1 Hypotheses of Necrosis, Injury, Ischemia.- 9.2 Sites of Myocardial Infarction.- 9.3 Course and Classification of Infarcts.- 9.4 Differential Diagnosis of the ECG in Myocardial Infarction.- 9.5 Infarct and Bundle Branch Block.- 10. Changes in the ST-T Segment.- 10.1 Causes of ST-T Changes.- 11. Exercise ECG.- 11.1 Changes in the Exercise ECG Suggestive of Coronary Disease.- 11.2 Doubtful and Prognostically Unreliable Changes in the Exercise ECG.- 11.3 Absolute Contraindications to the Exercise Tolerance Test or Bicycle Dynamometry.- 11.4 Relative Contraindications.- 11.5 Criteria for Discontinuance.- 12. ECG Diagnosis of Arrhythmias.- 12.1 Are (normal) P Waves Present?.- 12.2 What is the Distance Between Individual P Waves?.- 12.3 What is the Shape of the P waves?.- 12.4 What is the Distance of P Waves from the Following QRS Complex?.- 12.5 What is the Distance Between Apparently Identical VentricularComplexes?.- 12.6 What is the Time Relation of Differently Shaped Ventricular Complexes to Each Other or to the Basic Rhythm?.- 12.7 Incidence of Different Types of Arrhythmia.- 13. Pacemaker ECG.- 13.1 Fixed-Rate Pacemakers.- 13.2 Demand Pacemakers.- 13.3 Atrial-Triggered Pacemakers.- 13.4 Bifocal Demand Pacemakers.- 13.5 Complications After Pacemaker Implantation.- 14. ECG in Children.- 14.1 Normal Development of ECG as a Whole.- 14.2 Characteristic Patterns of Childhood Tracings.- 14.3 Effects of Extracardiac Factors.- 14.4 Technical Difficulties.- 15. Technique of ECG Recording.- 16. Concluding Cautionary Remarks on ECG Interpretation.- 16.1 Cardiac Arrhythmias.- 16.2 Diagnosis of Infarction.- 16.3 Suspected Hypertrophy of Individual Parts of the Heart.