The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need

Product Description

Now in its updated Fifth Edition, this popular and practical text presents all the information clinicians need to use the EKG in everyday practice and interpret hypertrophy and enlargement, arrhythmias, conduction blocks, pre-excitation syndromes, and myocardial infarction. It is an ideal reference for medical students in ICM courses, house officers, or anyone directly involved in patient care, whether student, teacher, or practitioner. The book features more than 200 facsimiles of EKG strips and numerous case studies and clinical examples. This Fifth Edition includes updated information on pacemakers and myocardial infarction treatment and more practice EKGs.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #8570 in Books
* Published on: 2006-09-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 342 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
American Family Physician, 01-APR-00, Volume 61, Issue 7, Rosaire Verna, MD, Georgetown University, Washington, DC -- Praise for the previous edition: "This text will no doubt be helpful to those learning the important key features of EKG interpretation."

Review
American Family Physician, 01-APR-00, Volume 61, Issue 7, Rosaire Verna, MD, Georgetown University, Washington, DC -- Praise for the previous edition:
"This text will no doubt be helpful to those learning the important key features of EKG interpretation."
Customer Reviews

Mediocre2
This book is meant for people in medical school. It may actually be less advanced then Dubin. I may be biased there as I used Dubin in medical school and then everything was new. If you have gone through a basic book then this may be a waste of your time and money. It doesnot deal in depth with arrhythmias, or with T wave inversions or the use of vector EKG which may help in tight spots.

very helpful to an MS2 or MS35
There are 2 main ECG books med students use, Thaler's and Dubin's. Having seen the other and used this one primarily, I feel the Thaler text is by far better for second or third year med students. He covers all the main cardiac and extra-cardiac pathology that can be seen on the ECG and does so with very good explanations that you'll remember without having to feel like you're memorizing. His introductory chapter explaining how the ECG works is also excellent and allows you to understand what part of the heart each lead represents, again without any real memorization. After reading his chapter this stuff just makes sense. While certainly not at the level of a cardiology fellow, this book serves the niche of an introductory ECG text for med, PA, CRNA, or ARNP students quite well. As a bonus, Thaler has a pretty fun sense of humor that makes the reading much more amusing that you'd expect for an ECG book.

The name says it all....5
Simple, direct, effective.

The plain truth is that EKG's are not as mysterious and complicated as some people and some texts would have you believe. This book boils it down to the basics, yet is very comprhensive.

A must-own for anyone having to interpret EKG's: from tele techs to EMTs to MDs.