The ECG Made Easy, 9th Edition
For over forty years The ECG Made Easy has been regarded as the best introductory guide to the ECG, with sales of over half a million copies as well as being translated into more than a dozen languages. Hailed by the British Medical Journal as a "medical classic", it has been a favorite of generations of medical and health care staff who require clear, basic knowledge about the ECG. This famous book encourages the reader to accept that the ECG is easy to understand and that its use is just a natural extension of taking the patient's history and performing a physical examination. It directs users of the electrocardiogram to straightforward and accurate identification of normal and abnormal ECG patterns.
New to this edition
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- A new opening chapter entitled 'The ECG made very easy' distills the bare essentials of using an ECG in clinical practice with minimal theory and maximum practicality.
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- The second part explains the theory underlying the recording of an ECG in order to start basic interpretation of the 12 leads.
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- The third part looks at the clinical interpretation of individual ECGs in patients with chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations and syncope as well as understanding the normal variations in ECGs recorded from healthy subjects.
Key Features
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- A practical and highly informative guide to a difficult subject.
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- Provides a full understanding of the ECG in the diagnosis and management of abnormal cardiac rhythms.
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- Emphasizes the role of the full 12 lead ECG with realistic reproduction of recordings.
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- The unique page size allows presentation of 12-lead ECGs across a single page for clarity.
Author Information
By John Hampton, DM, MA, DPhil, FRCP, FFPM, FESC, Emeritus Professor of Cardiology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK and Joanna Hampton, MD, MA, BM BCh, FRCP, Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
