Main description:

The present is bundled with several unique features. It provides up-to-date information on electrocardiograms for almost all electrocardiographic abnormalities covers all aspects of surface electrocardiography in detail. Summaries follow all book chapters for quick revision and MCQs for self-assessment. This book will be helpful to clinicians, fellows in medicine preparing for different careers in cardiology, and ECG technicians and their teachers.The purpose of writing this book - While teaching undergraduates, postgraduates in general medicine, and students of diploma course in cardiac instrument technology, I realized that the students did not have the knowledge of basic concepts of electrocardiography and did not know the clinical significance of various abnormalities. Students, therefore, felt that the subject was difficult to understand and of no clinical significance. Students, therefore, did not feel interested. There was a need for a book that could simplify the subject to the ground level for a beginner who does not know even the basics of electrocardiography. Most of the books in this field are targeted towards cardiologists with an understanding that the reader already has enough knowledge of the basic concepts of electrocardiography. MCQs are the cornerstone for learning, teaching, and evaluation. None of the books in the market gives the idea of MCQs in electrocardiography. What problem does this book solve for the readers? - This book explains various normal and abnormal findings with the help of diagrams and illustrative electrocardiograms. Clinical implications of multiple abnormalities are discussed. This makes the subject easy to understand and to interest for a beginner. MCQs will help the readers in self-assessment. MCQs will also help teachers and examiners in evaluating the students.

Contents:

1 Technical errors & artefacts

2 Sinus Node Dysfunction

3 The P wave & The PR segment

4 Narrow QRS Tachycardias

5 Atrial flutter

6 Atrial fibrillation

7 Short PR interval, Ventricular preexcitation

8 Atrioventricular accessory path

(The Kent bundle)

9 Tachyarrhythmias associated with preexcitation

10 Atrioventricular Block

11 Third degree atrioventricular block (Complete atrioventricular block), Atrioventricular dissociation

12 Site and etiology of atrioventricular block

13 Stokes-Adams' attacks

14 Cardiac Pacing Systems and their normal functioning

15 Pacemaker malfunctions

16 Ventricular ectopic beats

17 Broad QRS Tachycardias

18 Ventricular tachyarrhythmias

19 The Q Wave

20 Subtle ECG changes in early phase of anterior and lateral myocardial infarction

21 Inferior or Posterior myocardial infarction

22 Mid-late QRS changes suggestive of myocardial necrosis

23 Right ventricular infarction

24 Left bundle branch block

(Delay in left ventricular depolarization delay)

25 Left bundle branch block

(Delay in left ventricular depolarization) and myocardial necrosis

26 Left anterior fascicular block (LAFB)

(Delay in left anterosuperior depolarization)

(Left anterior hemiblock LAHB)

27 Left posteroinferior fascicular block

(delay in depolarization of the posteroinferior fascicle)

28 RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK (RBBB)

(Delay in right ventricular depolarization)

29 Multifascicular blocks

(delayed conduction in more than one fascicle).- 30 Other localized intraventricular conduction defects

31 Chronic left ventricular volume overload

32 Left Ventricular systolic overload (Pressure overload)

33 Chronic right ventricular volume overload

34 Chronic right ventricular pressure overload(Systolic overload)

35 Acute right ventricular pressure overload- Acute pulmonary embolism

36 Biventricular enlargement/ hypertrophy/overload

37 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy( HCM)

38 Low voltage electrocardiogram

39 J Point and the J wave syndrome

40 ST-segment elevation

41 ST-segment Depression

42 T wave - Normal variations and Flat T wave

43 Prominent (tall) T waves

44 Inverted T waves

45 The QT interval

46 The U wave

47 Electrical Alternans

48 Electrocardiogram in asymptomatic, acyanotic

congenital heart disease

49 Electrocardiogram in a neonate presenting with heart failure

50 Utility of electrocardiogram in a cases presenting with

heart failure in infancy (after neonatal period)

51 Electrocardiogram in children/ adolescents/ adults with cyanosis

due to congenital cardiovascular disease.