Medical student survival skills. ECG / Phil Jevon, Jayant Gupta
Imprint
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2020
Descript
ix, 124 pages : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm
SUMMARY
Medical students encounter many challenges on their path to success, from managing their time, applying theory to practice, and passing exams. The Medical Student Survival Skills series helps medical students navigate core subjects of the curriculum, providing accessible, short reference guides for OSCE preparation and hospital placements. These guides are the perfect tool for achieving clinical success. Medical Student Survival Skills: ECG is an indispensable resource for students new to ECG interpretation and cardiac arrhythmia recognition and treatment. Integrating essential clinical knowledge with practical OSCE advice, this portable guide provides concise and user-friendly coverage of all aspects of ECG monitoring, including atrial and ventricular fibrillation, myocardial infarction, and 12 lead ECG interpretation. Easy-to-find information, plentiful illustrations, OSCE checklists and expert discussions of actual ECG trace examples help medical students and junior doctors quickly get up to speed with ECG interpretation skills
CONTENT
Introduction to ECG monitoring -- Principles of ECG monitoring -- Six stage approach to ECG interpretation -- Sinus tachycardia -- Sinus bradycardia -- Sinus arrhythmia -- Atrial ectopic beats -- Atrial tachycardia -- Atrial flutter -- Atrial fibrillation -- AV junctional ectopics -- AV junctional escape rhythm -- Junctional tachycardia -- Ventricular ectopics -- Idioventricular rhythm -- Ventricular tachycardia -- Torsades de pointes -- First degree AV block -- Second degree AV block mobitz type I (Wenckebach phenomenon) -- Second degree AV block mobitz type II -- Third degree (complete) AV block -- Ventricular fibrillation -- Ventricular standstill -- Asystole -- Recording a 12 lead ECG -- What the standard 12 lead ECG records -- Interpretation of a 12 lead ECG -- ECG changes associate with myocardial infarction -- ECG changes associate with myocardial ischaemia -- ECG changes associate with bundle branch block -- Wolff-parkinson-white syndrome