Goldberger’s Clinical Electrocardiography-A Simplified Approach

Description

Ideal for students and as a review for practicing clinicians, Goldberger’s Clinical Electrocardiography explains the fundamentals of ECG interpretation and analysis, helping facilitate an understanding of rhythm disorders and the relevant clinical outcomes. The authors take readers through the nuts and bolts of ECG, using Dr. Ary Goldberger’s award-winning teaching style to clarify complex concepts in an easy-to-read manner. You’ll learn simple waveform analysis and beyond to present ECGs as they are used in hospital wards, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, and most especially intensive care units — where the recognition of normal and abnormal patterns is the starting point in patient care.

Key Features

• Includes Clinical Pearls and Review Points in each chapter, as well as indispensable self-tests on interpreting and using ECGs to formulate diagnoses.
• Covers the nuts and bolts of ECG, explaining how to read the data and then interpret the subsequent clinical findings.
• Features practical, comprehensive coverage of the true-to-life clinical appearance of ECGs.
• Provides ECG differential diagnoses so you can answer the question, “What else could it be?”

Table of Contents

1. PART ONE: Basic Principles and Patterns
   1. Essential Concepts: What is an ECG?
   2. ECG Basics: Waves, Intervals, and Segments
   3. How to Make Basic Measurements
   4. ECG Leads
   5. The Normal ECG
   6. Electrical Axis and Axis Deviation
   7. Atrial and Ventricular Enlargement
   8. Ventricular Conduction Disturbances: Bundle Branch Blocks and Related Abnormalities
   9. Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia, Part I: ST Segment Elevation and Q Wave Syndromes
   10. Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia, Part II: Non-ST Segment Elevation and Non–Q Wave Syndromes
   11. Drug Effects, Electrolyte Abnormalities, and Metabolic Effects
   12. Pericardial, Myocardial, and Pulmonary Syndromes
2. PART TWO: Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances
   1. 13. Sinus and Escape Rhythms
   2. 14. Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Part I: Premature Beats and Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias (PSVTs)
   3. 15. Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Part II: Atrial Flutter and Atrial Fibrillation
   4. 16. Ventricular Arrhythmias
   5. 17. AV Conduction Abnormalities, Part I: Delays, Blocks, and Dissociation Syndromes
   6. 18. AV Conduction Abnormalities, Part II: Preexcitation (Wolff-Parkinson-White) Patterns and Syndromes
3. PART THREE: Special Topics and Reviews
   1. 19. Bradycardias and Tachycardias: Review and Differential Diagnosis
   2. 20. Digitalis Toxicity
   3. 21. Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Cardiac Death
   4. 22. Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Essentials for Clinicians
   5. 23. Interpreting ECGs: An Integrative Approach
   6. 24. Limitations and Uses of the ECG
   7. 25. ECG Differential Diagnoses: Instant Replays

Authors Biography

Ary Goldberger

Ary L. Goldberger, MD, FACC, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Margret and HA Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

Affiliations and Expertise
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director, Margret and HA Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Zachary Goldberger

Zachary D. Goldberger, MD, FACC, FHRS, is Associate Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Public Health’s Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Electrophysiology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.

Affiliations and Expertise
Associate Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine/Electrophysiology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Alexei Shvilkin

Alexei Shvilkin, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

Affiliations and Expertise
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts