ECGs Made Easy - Book and Pocket Reference Package |  | Author: Barbara J Aehlert RN BSPA
Publisher: Mosby/JEMS
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Sales Rank: 32900
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0323039693
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.1207547
EAN: 9780323039697
ASIN: 0323039693
Publication Date: December 20, 2005
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Product Description
Written in a more conversational style, this popular text offers clear, straightforward explanations plus practice exercises that make it easier than ever to understand and interpret basic dysrhythmias. This edition features more practice ECG strips, expanded Stop and Review exercises, and a new companion CD-ROM with video clips and additional ECG strips. This package also includes a handy Pocket Reference and a heart rate calculator ruler.
- Description of each dysrhythmia's characteristics is presented along with causes, possible clinical significance, and recommended interventions.
- Contains chapter objectives and key terms.
- The Introduction to the 12-Lead ECG chapter provides all the basics for this advanced skill, including determining electrical axis, ECG changes associated with myocardial ischemia and infarction, bundle branch block, and miscellaneous conditions.
- A comprehensive post-test is provided at the end of the book in chapter 10.
- Rewritten in conversational style to improve readability.
- Expanded Stop and Review section at the end of each chapter includes matching, short answer, multiple choice, true/false questions, crossword puzzles, and practice ECG tracings.
- Over 100 new illustrations visually support the text.
- ECG Pearl boxes give helpful hints for interpreting ECGs.
- Drug Pearl boxes highlight various medications used to treat dysrhythmias.
- Expanded to include even more practice ECG strips.
- Expanded 12-lead ECG chapter.
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 ECGs Made Easy October 10, 2009
Sara Marchak (mansfield, ohio)
Book explains the heart and the ECG in great detail and helps nursing students understand
Great book for people just starting to interpret ECGs June 5, 2008
Primadona (USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you have always seen the tele monitors in the hospital and don't know what the zigzag on it means, this is the book you need when you have to take an intensive critical care course.
This was a required text for my critical care course and amazon did a good job shipping it on time.
I liked the book and as many times as i've studied conduction in my A&P classes, the fact that i'm a physics and chemistry person makes me forget certain stuff in bio. This book does such a good job of explaining conduction in making you really understand what happens in various stages like depolirazion and repolization. I like the approach because you kinda need to know which ions are coming out at each phase so you'll know when to prescribe a calcium channel blocker for a patient and when to prescribe a class II or II antiarrhythmic.
I didn't get time to use the CD because time moves so fast when you're under stress but i did love the pocket companion and the only thing is that it doesn't tell you the treatments in it. You'll have to look at the big book itself to know how to treat a 3rd degree block. I never thought i'd be able to get the heart blocks down in my head but thanks to this book i did.
Just a little thing i'll share with readers, here's one way to remember a wenkenbach. It goes "longer, longer, longer, longer, then you have a wenkenbach."
the P-r interval keeps getting longer and longer till you finally dorp a qrs. My instructor sang it in a silly way and i thought i'd share it. In that way you'll recognize a Mobitz type I when you see one.
I tried different ECG books and this one one worked for me.
Easily Understood March 29, 2008
Kevin (Brockton, MA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was issued these books as part of my paramedic program. I haven't looked at any other books of this type, but I will say that the way the author lays out the different rythms and covers them in such a way, that it makes it easy for the beginner student to understand. The pocket reference is great and is small enough to carry with you for fast reference. Highly recommended.
The helpful pocket manual/text book contents are as follows
Chapter 1 Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter 2 Basic Electrophysiology
Chapter 3 Sinus Mechanisms
Chapter 4 Atrial Rythms
Chapter 5 Junctional Rythms
Chapter 6 Ventricular Rythms
Chapter 7 Atrioventricular (AV) Blocks
Chapter 8 Pacemaker Rythms
Chapter 9 Intro to 12 lead ECG
Loved it May 22, 2007
Deborah Okoniewski (USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is the best book for anyone...and I mean anyone to learn the basics of ekg's.
ECGs Made Easy January 3, 2007
Janet L. Myers (Willshire, Ohio United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The book and pockeet reference are both excellent information on interpreting ECGs as well as the signmificance of abnormal electrolytes.
Very well organized.
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