Advanced ECG: Boards and Beyond (inbunden)

Fler böcker inom

Medicinsk diagnostik

Format: Häftad (Paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 320
Utgivningsdatum: 2005-11-01
Upplaga: 2
Illustrationer: Approx. 500 illustrations
Dimensioner: 215 x 275 x 10 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9781416024026

Extensive case examples and comparison ECGs for problem diagnoses, Pearls and tips for recognizing rhythm problems and common pitfalls in ECG readings are covered in detail. The book contains three practice exams with a total of over 100 questions and answers for BOARD REVIEW for the ECG section of the internal medicine and cardiology board exams.

1. Sinus Rhythms: Two Benign Variations
2. Ectopic Beats and Sustained Ectopic Rhythms: Mechanisms of Idiorhythms and Paroxysmal Tachycardia
3. Differential Diagnosis of Wide-Beat Tachycardia
4. The Supraventricular Tachycardias
5. Various Abnormalities of Intraventricular Conduction
6. More About Aberrancy
Self-Assessment I
7. AV Block: Where Is It Localized and What Do You Do About It?
8. Diagnosis of Complex Forms of AV Block: Some Tricks, Some Booby Traps
9. Atrial Fibrillation
10. Atrial Flutter
Self-Assessment II
11. Preexcitation
12. Fascicular Beats and Fascicular Tachycardia
13. Concealed Conduction, Exit Block, Bundle-Branch Wenckebach and Supernormal Conduction
14. Fatal Arrhythmias: Ventricular Fibrillation, Ventricular Flutter, Torsade, R-on-T Phenomenon, Standstill
15. The Sick Sinus Syndrome
16. Digitalis-Toxic Arrhythmias
17. Myocardial Infarction
18. Diagnosing Myocardial Infarction in the Presence of Bundle-Branch Block
19. Transient Myocardial Ischemia and Angina Pectoris
20. Pericarditis
21. Enlargement of the Chambers of the Heart: Hypertrophy and Dilatation
22. "Nonspecific Myocardial Pathology
23. Electrolytes and Drugs
24. Two Special Cases: Pulmonary Emboli and Hypothermia
Self-Assessment Exercise III
25. Graduation Exercise
26. How to Take a Board Examination
Appendixes
I. Indications for Pacing in the Bradyarrhythmias
II. How to Determine Axis