EKG PLAIN AND SIMPLE
Publisher: Pearson Health Science
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN 13: 9780132377294
Edition: 3rd
Description:
Unlike books that encourage rote memorization, this conversationally-written text puts the student at the patient's bedside, focusing not just on identifying rhythms or EKGs, but also on "Now what do I do for the patient?" Assuming no prior knowledge, EKG PLAIN AND SIMPLE, 3/e covers EKG from basic to advanced concepts. Part I progresses seamlessly from basic cardiac A&P through waves and complexes, lead morphology, and rhythms. Part II covers 12-lead interpretation, axis, hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, and more. The text presents many clinical scenarios, anecdotes, and critical thinking exercises, plus hundreds of practice rhythm strips and 12-lead EKGs. This edition adds new scenarios, chapter notes, and tables; more medication information; and new coverage ranging from MI symptoms to hemiblocks.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
PART ONE The Basics
- CHAPTER 1 OBJECTIVES
- Introduction
- Layers of the Heart
- Heart Chambers
- Heart Valves
- Great Vessels
- Blood Flow through the Heart
- The Cardiac Cycle
- Blood Flow through the Systemic Circulation
- Coronary Arteries
- Heart Cells
- Nervous Control of the Heart
- Practice Quiz
- Putting It All Together—Critical Thinking Exercises
- CHAPTER 2 OBJECTIVES
- Introduction
- Depolarization and Repolarization
- The Action Potential
- Refractory Periods
- EKG Waves and Complexes
- Waves and Complexes Identification Practice
- QRS Nomenclature
- QRS Nomenclature Practice
- Cardiac Conduction System
- Cardiac Cells
- Inherent (Escape) Rates of the Pacemaker Cells
- Conduction Variations
- EKG Paper
- Intervals
- Intervals Practice
- Practice Quiz
- Putting It All Together—Critical Thinking Exercises
- CHAPTER 4 OBJECTIVES
- Introduction
- Control Features
- Electrical Safety
- Artifact
- Troubleshooting
- Artifact Troubleshooting Practice
- Artifact Masquerading as Rhythms
- Artifact in Three Leads Monitored Simultaneously
- Is It Real or Is It Artifact?
- Real or Artifact: How to Tell the Difference
- Practice Quiz
- Putting It All Together—Critical Thinking Exercises
- CHAPTER 5 OBJECTIVES
- Introduction
- Methods for Calculating Heart Rate
- Regularity-Based Heart Rate Calculation
- Regularity Types
- Practice Strips: Regularity of Rhythms
- Kind of Heart Rate to Calculate for Different Types of Regularity
- Practice Strips: Calculating Heart Rate
- Practice Quiz
- Putting It All Together—Critical Thinking Exercises
- CHAPTER 8 OBJECTIVES
- Introduction
- The Word on Atrial Rhythms
- Wandering Atrial Pacemaker/Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia
- Premature Atrial Complexes (PACs)
- Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia (PAT)
- Atrial Flutter
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
- Practice Strips: Atrial Rhythms
- Practice Quiz
- Putting It All Together—Critical Thinking Exercises
- CHAPTER 10 OBJECTIVES
- Introduction
- The Word on Ventricular Rhythms
- Premature Ventricular Complexes (PVCs)
- Agonal Rhythm (Dying Heart)
- Idioventricular Rhythm (IVR)
- Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm (AIVR)
- Ventricular Tachycardia (V-tach)
- Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW)
- Torsades de Pointes
- Ventricular Fibrillation (V-fib)
- Asystole
- Pacemaker Rhythm
- Practice Strips: Ventricular Rhythms
- Practice Quiz
- Putting It All Together—Critical Thinking Exercises
- CHAPTER 11 OBJECTIVES
- Introduction
- Degrees of AV Block
- The Word on AV Blocks
- First-Degree AV Block
- Mobitz I Second-Degree AV Block (Wenckebach)
- Mobitz II Second-Degree AV Block
- 2:1 AV Block
- Third-Degree AV Block (Complete Heart Block)
- Practice Strips: AV Blocks
- Practice Quiz
- Putting It All Together—Critical Thinking Exercises
Coronary Anatomy and Physiology
Electrophysiology
Lead Morphology and Placement
Technical Aspects of the EKG
Calculating Heart Rate
How to Interpret a Rhythm Strip
Rhythms Originating in the Sinus Node
Rhythms Originating in the Atria
Rhythms Originating in the AV Junction
Rhythms Originating in the Ventricles
AV Blocks
Rhythm Practice Strips
PART TWO Advanced Concepts
- CHAPTER 14 OBJECTIVES
- Introduction
- Symptoms of MI
- The Three Is of Infarction
- ST Segment
- T Wave
- QRS Complexes
- R Wave Progression and Transition
- Evolution of a STEMI
- Determining the Age of an MI
- Walls of the Left Ventricle
- Myocardial Infarction Locations
- Infarction Squares
- MI Pictorials
- Myocardial Infarction Algorithm
- Right Ventricular Infarction
- Conditions That Can Mimic an MI
- MI Practice
- EKG Complications of MI
- Treatment of MI
- Practice Quiz
- Putting It All Together—Critical Thinking Exercises
