ECG’s for the Emergency Physician 1
ECG’s for the Emergency Physician 1 Books
- ISBN13: 9780727916549
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A collection of 200 high quality ECGs (Electrocardiogram’s) that cover the entire spectrum of emergency electrocardiography. The first half of the book represents an intermediate level of difficulty and is ideal for residents in training and for the emergency medicine board review. The second half contains more advanced ECGs and will challenge even the most seasoned emergency medicine practitioner. When taken in its entirety, the book contains one of the best collections of ECGs ever assembled, targeted at advancing the ECG interpretation skills of emergency physicians and other acute health care providers.
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Very excellent for brushing up and strengthening your knowledge on ECG’s. There are some (minor) mistakes on certain interpretations, though, which is probably just due to first edition.
Rating: 5 / 5
I liked this book. It has a bunch of EKGs each with a one sentence history and then an explanation/interpretation of the ECG in the back. If you’re trying to figure out how to learn to interpet ECG, look elsewhere (ie Art of Interpretation by Garcia or The Only EKG Book You’ll Ever Need by Thaler). But if you’re a resident like me and don’t want to miss stuff (like PEs, lytes abnormalities, small ST elevations, anything with the intervals) this is a pretty nice book. Bascially, a lot of the ECGs are stuff that you’ve seen elsewhere but you don’t everlastingly catch because you don’t remember to look for them (like QT prolongation or Type 1 AV Block). Nice book, but not the only EKG book in my collection. Would urge to fellow residents.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a fantastic text to have. Is excellent for brushing up on your own ECG skills, and high quality images can be readily copied for pimping sessions on rounds.
Rating: 5 / 5
The way to get better at reading EKG’s is to do, do, and do some more! Thus, Dr. Mattu’s book is invaluable in providing a multitude of fantastic cases to work with. The explanations are very clear and help build your understanding of EKG patterns in a stepwise manner.
I plotting one particular strength are the illustrations in the “explanation” section. Often, with other do ECG books, they just write out in words what you should be looking for. But Dr. Mattu’s book provides examples for certain cases where illustrations help exhibit the topic. (Example: One do EKG strip shows LBBB. In the explanation section, they write out the criteria for LBBB. Additionally, they give extra pictures to exhibit discordance versus concordance between ST segments and T wave morphology in LBBB). If I had read someone describe this phenomenon in words, it would have made it much harder to grasp the concept. Of course, not every explanation comes with an illustration.
This book is a nice way to get excellent self-studying on EKG’s and I reckon it’s an apt level for med students or residents looking for more experience and guidance in this topic.
Rating: 5 / 5
Over the last few years, I’ve looked at quite a few references about ECGs. Mattu’s book is certainly one of a kind. Split into two sections, each with 100 12-leads, the text starts subtly and works towards increasing difficulty and complexity of the strips. Each strip includes but a single description of the patient e.g. “46 year ancient male complaining of left chest pressure.” The reader can then form his own impression of the patient’s shape up, and then refer to the end matter for a detailed explanation of the actual diagnosis.
This is certainly a teaching book. In many cases, I found myself formulating a diagnosis only to read in the back, “This is commonly misdiagnosed as [my guess]” or “This can easily be mistaken for [also my guess.]”
Initially, I was not quite confident text was worth the distress. It does, after all, simply bestow strip after strip, with commentary in the back. But the text is structured in such a way that the reader can build upon knowledge and apply past failures at diagnosis to each new strip. I found myself making fewer and fewer elemental mistakes and developing a more complete picture of differential diagnosis as I progressed through the book.
Purely in terms of it’s presentation of uncommon variants to common rhythms, the text is well worth the price. I’m not an emergency physician. My interest is EMS and prehospital care. Regardless, I found fantastic utility in this text.
Rating: 5 / 5