Advanced ECG (Paperback)

ECGs make up a significant part of the internal medicine and cardiology specialty board exams, and this is the perfect book to help you prepare. In this comprehensive volume, Dr Phibbs explains how to differentiate among ECG rhythms and describes the identifying principles of commonly confused rhythm readings. Pearls and tips for recognizing rhythm problems and common pitfalls in ECG readings appear in every chapter and are covered in detail. In addition, three practice exams with a total of over 100 questions facilitate exam preparation and self-assessment. 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.

Salient Features
* Provides extensive examples of all common and uncommon arrhythmias for easy recognition.
* Contains over 100 board-type review questions with answers and strategies for passing the arrhythmia section.
* Uses simple line drawings of anatomical structures to promote a greater understanding of arrhythmia and how functional problems manifest as rhythm disorders.
* Utilizes clear explanations of rhythm function to enables quick understanding of difficult concepts
* Incorporates pearls and tips to help you decipher ECGs and identify important markings on the readings.

Table of Contents
* 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