Main description:

Titles in the Pocket Tutor series give practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with 'on the go', at a highly-affordable price that puts them within reach of those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment.

Topics reflect information needs stemming from today's integrated undergraduate and foundation courses:

Common presentations
Investigation options (e.g. ECG, imaging)
Clinical and patient-orientated skills (e.g. examinations, history-taking)

The highly-structured, bite-size content helps novices combat the 'fear factor' associated with day-to-day clinical training, and provides a detailed resource that students and junior doctors can carry in their pocket.

Key points

New edition of the best-selling title that breaks down a complex and daunting subject using clearly-labelled, full-page ECG traces and concise but informative text
Revised text and brand-new ECG traces bring the new edition fully up-to-date
New chapters cover electrolyte and homeostatic disorders, and normal variants
Logical, sequential content: relevant basic science, then a guide to understanding a normal ECG and the building blocks of an abnormal ECG, before describing clinical disorders

Contents:

Chapter 1 First principles

1.1 Anatomy

1.2 Physiology

1.3 Electrical activity and the ECG

Chapter 2 Understanding the normal ECG

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The limb leads

2.3 The chest leads

2.4 The lead orientation

2.5 ECG nomenclature

Chapter 3 Interpreting the ECG: a six-step approach

3.1 Step 1: is there electrical activity?

3.2 Step 2: what is the QRS (ventricular) rate?

3.3 Step 3: is the rhythm regular?

3.4 Step 4: is the QRS narrow (normal) or broad?

3.5 Step 5: is there atrial electrical activity?

3.6 Step 6: how is the atrial activity related to the ventricular activity?

3.7 Glossary of distinct ECG signs

Chapter 4 Bradyarrhythmias I: sinoatrial node dysfunction

4.1 Sinus bradycardia

4.2 Sinus pause with junctional escape beat

Chapter 5 Bradyarrhythmias II: conduction abnormalities

5.1 First-degree atrioventricular block

5.2 Second-degree atrioventricular block: Mobitz type 1 or Wenckebach

5.3 Second-degree atrioventricular block: Mobitz type 2

5.4 Second-degree heart block: 2:1 atrioventricular block

5.5 Third-degree (complete) atrioventricular block: narrow QRS

5.6 Third-degree (complete) atrioventricular block: broad QRS

5.7 Right bundle branch block

5.8 Left bundle branch block

Chapter 6 Ectopic beats

6.1 Atrial ectopic beats

6.2 Ventricular ectopic beats

6.3 Junctional ectopic beats

Chapter 7 Atrial arrhythmias

7.1 Atrial tachycardia

7.2 Multifocal atrial tachycardia

7.3 Atrial flutter

7.4 Atrial fibrillation

7.5 Atrial fibrillation with left bundle branch block

Chapter 8 Narrow-complex tachyarrhythmias (supraventricular tachycardias)

8.1 Atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia

8.2 Atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia

8.3 Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: right-sided pathway

8.4 Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: left lateral pathway

8.5 Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: posterior pathway

8.6 Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome plus atrial fibrillation

Chapter 9 Broad-complex tachyarrhythmias

9.1 Monomorphic ventricular tachycardia

9.2 Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia

9.3 Torsade de points

9.4 Ventricular fibrillation

9.5 Supraventricular tachycardia with bundle branch block

Chapter 10 Ischaemia and infarction

10.1 ST segment depression (cardiac ischaemia)

10.2 Acute myocardial ischaemia: T wave inversion and the LAD syndrome

10.3 ST segment elevation myocardial infarction: anterior0

10.4 ST segment elevation myocardial infarction: acute inferior

10.5 ST segment elevation myocardial infarction: posterior

10.6 Completed myocardial infarction

Chapter 11 Inherited arrhythmia problems

11.1 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

11.2 Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia

11.3 Long QT syndrome

11.4 Brugada syndrome

Chapter 12 Cardiac chamber dilation, strain and hypertrophy

12.1 Left ventricular hypertrophy

12.2 Right ventricular hypertrophy

12.3 Pulmonary embolus

12.4 Left atrial dilation

12.5 Right atrial dilation

Chapter 13 Electrolyte and homeostasis disorders

13.1 Hyperkalaemia

13.2 Hypokalaemia

13.3 Hypercalcaemia

13.4 Hypocalcaemia

13.5 Hypothermia

Chapter 14 Miscellaneous conditions and normal variants

14.1 Pericarditis

14.2 Pacemaker

14.3 Biventricular pacemaker

14.4 Early repolarisation pattern

14.5 Non-pathological Q waves