cover image - The ECG in Emergency Decision Making, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781416002598
Copyright: 2006
Publication Date: 09-08-2005
Page Count: 304
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $65.95

The ECG in Emergency Decision Making, 2nd Edition

by Hein J. J. Wellens, MD, PhD and Mary Boudreau Conover, RN, BSN

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cover image - The ECG in Emergency Decision Making, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781416002598
Copyright: 2006
Publication Date: 09-08-2005
Page Count: 304
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $65.95
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    • Summary boxes at the beginning of chapters give a step-by-step guide of emergency approaches
    • Clear, consistent writing and organization
    • Reflects the latest American Heart Association guidelines
    • Perforated decision making cards at the end of the book (various emergency situations) can be used for quick access in the clinical setting
    • Established, well-respected authors provide cutting-edge info that practitioners can trust
    • Reviewed by a consulting board of nationally recognized experts in the specialty area of ECG
  • Information on using the ST deviation vector in acute myocardial infarction to localize the site of occlusion in the coronary artery and thereby the site and size of the area at risk.
    How to risk stratify and treat patients with acute coronary syndromes showing ST segment depression.
    Noninvasive measures to determine the site of atrioventricular block.
    A guide to prehospital screening for patients with chest pain.
    The ECG features of myocardial infarction in patients with an acute myocardial infarction AND a left bundle branch block.
    New information on monogenic diseases leading to cardiac arrhythmias.
    Perforated decision-making cards for quick access in the emergency setting.
  • 1. Acute Myocardial Infarction
    2. ECG Identification of High-Risk Patients with Unstable Angina
    3. Wide QRS Tachycardia
    4. Narrow QRS Tachycardia
    5. Monogenic Diseases Leading to Cardiac Arrhythmias and Sudden Death
    6. Slow Atrial Rhythms
    7. Atrioventricular Block
    8. ECG Recognition of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
    9. Digitalis-Induced Emergencies
    10. Other Drug-Induced Emergencies
    11. Potassium-Related Emergencies
    12. Pacing Emergencies
    13. Prehospital Cardiac Emergencies
    Appendix 1. Emergency Axis Determination
    Appendix 2. Electrical Treatment Of Arrhythmias
    Appendix 3. Emergency Drugs
  • Hein J. J. Wellens, MD, PhD, Professor of Cardiology, University of Maastricht; Chairman, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Maastricht; Maastricht, The Netherlands and Mary Boudreau Conover, RN, BSN, Educational Director, Critical Care Conferences, Santa Cruz, CA
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