Field Guide to the Arrhythmias E-Book

Ellis Lader

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 154

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

…The cardiac unit is a jungle, inhabited by fierce nurses, killer intensivists, marauding attendings, various flesh-eating specialists, sick patients, and lots of arrhythmias. –from the Preface

Can you recognize the call of the normal sinus rhythm? Name the natural habitat of Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia or Ventricular Fibrillation? Are you well-versed in the proper care and feeding of Asystole and Atrial Flutter?

If you answered “no” to any of these questions, then you need this trusty guide to help you identify and respond to arrhythmias in the veritable wilderness of the busy hospital ward.
 
Created by a seasoned physician educator at a major urban medical center and inspired by the “field guides” used by birders, botanists and the like to identify flora or fauna in the wild, this new book offers a unique – and uniquely humorous -- approach to mastering the ever-vexing challenge of arrhythmia identification.

Each arrhythmia is covered beginning with a sample ECG strip, followed by brief text describing its significant characteristics; where and when it is likely to be encountered (its “Habitat”); comments, questions and queries likely to be heard from physicians and other colleagues on the ward (the “Call”); and finally what steps the reader needs to take upon identifying the arrhythmia in a patient (“Care and Feeding”).

Dr. Lader’s approach brings the sights and sounds of a modern hospital to life, enabling you to understand arrhythmia diagnosis and clinical response in context, and his offbeat, sometimes irreverent humor makes each detail memorable. 

Fifty self-assessment questions are included to help you master arrhythmia essentials and test your knowledge.

Leseprobe

Contents

Cover

Dedication

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part 1: The Rhythms

Normal Sinus Rhythm

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Preexcitation

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Sinus Bradycardia

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Sinus Tachycardia

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Sinus Arrhythmia

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Wandering Atrial Pacemaker

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Junctional Rhythm

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Asystole

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Heart Block: First Degree, Second Degree (Mobitz I and II), and Third Degree (Complete)

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Premature Beats (Blocked and Otherwise)

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Atrial Fibrillation

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Atrial Flutter

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Supraventricular (Paroxysmal Atrial) Tachycardia

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Pacemaker Rhythms

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Ventricular Tachycardia

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Prolonged QT/Torsades de Pointes

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Ventricular Fibrillation

DESCRIPTION

HABITAT

CALL

RESEMBLANCE TO OTHER ARRHYTHMIAS

CARE AND FEEDING

Part 2: Multiple Choice Questions

To my family

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