ECGs for Beginners (eBook)

Antoni Bayés de Luna Emeritus Professor of Cardiology, Autonomous University of Barcelona Senior Investigator, Institut Català Ciències Cardiovasculars, Hospital Sant Pau Senior Consultant, Hospital Quiron, Barcelona, Spain

Preface vii

Forewords to Previous Editions ix

Foreword x

Part I: The Normal Electrocardiogram 1

1 Anatomical and Electrophysiological Bases 3

2 The ECG Curve: What Is It and How Does It Originate? 11

3 Recording Devices and Techniques 33

4 ECG Interpretation 40

Part II: Morphological Abnormalities in the ECG 59

5 Atrial Abnormalities 61

6 Ventricular Enlargements 68

7 Ventricular Blocks 84

8 Ventricular Preexcitation 102

9 Myocardial Ischemia and Necrosis 111

Part III: The ECG in Arrhythmias 161

10 Concepts Classification and Mechanisms of Arrhythmias 163

11 ECG Patterns of Supraventricular Arrhythmias 179

12 ECG Patterns of Ventricular Arrhythmias 193

13 The ECG Patterns of Passive Arrhythmias 208

14 How to Interpret ECG Tracings with Arrhythmia 217

Part IV: ECG in Clinical Practice 221

15 From Symptoms to the ECG: ECGs in the presence of precordial pain or other symptoms 223

16 The ECG in Genetically Induced Heart Diseases and Other ECG Patterns with Poor Prognosis 231

17 ECG Recordings in Other Heart Diseases and Different Situations 246

18 Abnormal ECG Without Apparent Heart Disease and Normal ECG in Serious Heart Disease 258

Bibliography 262

Index 267