A collection of exceptional teaching ECGs from the libraries of more than 60 ECG master teachers from around the world. Tracings are presented in 232 cases along with questions and full discussion. A one-of-a-kind resource for both learning and teaching ECG interpretation.

Each year, several new books or new editions are published on electrocardiography. Since the invention of the electrocardiogram (ECG) by Willem Einthoven almost 110 years ago, the ECG has become the most commonly used test worldwide, and its use continues to increase. The medical community has subsequently gained a wealth of knowledge from the ECG for the diagnosis of many cardiac and noncardiac conditions, ranging from acute ischemia and infarction on the one hand to arrhythmias on the other. Furthermore, the ECG is the first step in evaluating patients arriving at the emergency department, as the results are immediately available. Likewise, the ECG has been used as a screening test for athletes and is also used to identify patients at a high-risk of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.

The cases in this book are arranged according to topics in electrocardiography and arrhythmias. Areas of focus include ECGs of inherited arrhythmia syndromes, athletic ECGs, and ECGs in congenital heart disease. The book also discusses new ECG criteria/markers and syndromes related to recently discovered channelopathies such as Brugada syndrome, early repolarization syndrome, and the like. We are confident that this collection of ECGs from masters of electrocardiography from around the world will prove useful and of great educational value to clinicians in many areas of medicine. We believe this unique collection is similar to receiving a master art collection from the Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum of Art that should be on everyone’s shelf as an ECG museum.

Contents

SECTION 1 Introduction to the Interpretation of the Electrocardiogram
SECTION 2 Conduction Disturbances: Sinus Node Disease/ Sick Sinus Syndromer AV Conduction Disturbances, AV Blocks, Bundle Branch Blocksr and Fasicicular Blocks
SECTION 3 Miscellaneous Phenomena: Concealed Conduction, Superabnormalities, Aberrancy Conduction, Premature Atrial and Ventricular Contractions (PACsand PVCs]
SECTION 4 Preexcitation Syndromes
SECTION 5 Early Repolarization (ECG Pattern and the Syndrome)
SECTION 6A Long QT Syndrome
SECTION 6B Short QT Syndrome
SECTION 6C Torsades de Pointes
SECTION 6D Other Proarrhythmias
SECTION 7 Brugada Syndrome
SECTION 8A Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia
SECTION SB Sinus Node Reentrant Tachycardia
SECTION 8C Atrial Tachycardia/ AtriaI Flutter
SECTION 8D Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
SECTION 8E Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia
SECTION 8F Atrial Fibrillation
SECTION 8G Junctional Rhythms
SECTION 9A Ventricular Tachycardia/Fibrillation
SECTION 9B Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) .’vith Bundle Branch Block (BBB)
SECTION 9C Preexcited Tachycardia
SECTION 9D Idioventricular Rhythm
SECTION 10 Ischemia and Infarction
SECTION 11 Electrolyte Disturbances, Pharmacological and Recreational Agents
SECTION 12 Paced Rhythms and Device Troubleshooting
SECTION 13A Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy (ARVD/ C)
SECTION 13B Hypertropkiic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)
SECTION 13C Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM)
SECTION 13D Chagas Cardiomyopathy
SECTION 13ETakotsubo [Stress] Cardiomyopathy
SECTION 13F Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy
SECTION 13G Pericarditis
SECTION 13H Other Cardiomyopathies
SECTION 14 Congenital Heart Diseases
SECTION 15 Special Considerations: Age, Race, Gender, and Athletes
SECTION 16 Syncope and ECG Troubleshooting