This Cardiac Arrhythmias & 12 Lead ECG Interpretation book is part of a 6-book series that is the 3rd Edition of our popular book Cardiovascular Nursing Practice. It is designed for nurses, nurse practitioners, paramedics, monitor technicians, physicians’ assistants, medical students, and any healthcare professional who works with cardiac patients.
Features of this book include:
•Size 12 font, full page layout, combination of prose and bulleted text for easy reading.
•Illustrations to help explain concepts discussed in the text.
•Most recent guidelines from American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology for pharmacological and electrical management of arrhythmias.
•Linking Knowledge to Practice sections to help you apply what you have read to clinical practice.
•Knowledge assessment questions or practice rhythm strips and ECGs at the end of each chapter to test your understanding of content presented.
Cardiac Arrhythmias
•Detailed description and real-life rhythm strips for all basic cardiac arrhythmias: sinus, atrial, supraventricular tachycardias, junctional, ventricular, AV blocks, asystole, and bundle branch blocks.
•Differential diagnosis of wide QRS beats and tachycardias
•Accessory pathways
•Bedside cardiac monitoring
•Mechanisms of arrhythmias
12 Lead Electrocardiography
•Anatomy of a 12 lead ECG, how each lead records electrical activity, and the 12 views of the heart
•Normal and abnormal ECG waveforms and intervals
•Calculating the QRS axis
•Fascicular blocks (hemiblocks)
•Chamber enlargement
•Ischemia, injury and infarction; locating the infarct on the ECG
•Preexcitation syndromes
•Brugada syndrome
•Long QT syndromes
•Drug and electrolyte effects on the ECG
Electrical Management of Arrhythmias
•Defibrillation and cardioversion
•Single chamber and dual chamber pacemakers
•Cardiac resynchronization therapy
•Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
•Wearable defibrillators
•Electrophysiology studies and ablation for arrhythmias
