
Rebecca Unruh, RN, MSN Nurse Manager – Cardiac Intensive Care Unit & Cardiac Rehabilitation North Kansas City (Mo.) Hospital Opal V. James Hospital and Health Center Olympia Fields, Ill. Leigh Ann Trujillo, RN, BSN Clinical Educator St. Hill, RN, MSN, CCNS-CSC Clinical Nurse Specialist, Surgical Intensive Care Unit Cleveland Clinic Cheryl Kabeli, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, CNS-BC Nurse Practitioner Champlain Valley Cardiothoracic Surgeons Plattsburgh, N.Y. Espinoza, RN, MSN, CNS, CCRN Clinical Nurse Specialist University of California Irvine Medical Center Orange Kathleen M. Karen Crisfulla, RN, CNS, MSN, CCRN Clinical Nurse Specialist Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania PhiladelphiaĬheryl Rader, RN, BSN, CCRN-CSC Staff Nurse: RN IV Saint Luke‘s Hospital of Kansas City (Mo.) Marcella Ann Mikalaitis, RN, MSN, CCRN Staff Nurse, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) Doylestown (Pa.) Hospital

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Allen, RN, MSN, ANP, BC, CLS Nurse Practitioner Womack Army Medical Center Fort Bragg, N.C. Obtaining a 12-lead ECG Interpreting a 12-lead ECGĪppendices and index Practice makes perfect ACLS algorithms Brushing up on interpretation skills Look-alike ECG challenge Quick guide to arrhythmias Glossary Selected references IndexĬontributors and consultants Diane M. Nonpharmacologic treatments Pharmacologic treatments Sinus node arrhythmias Atrial arrhythmias Junctional arrhythmias Ventricular arrhythmias Atrioventricular blocks

Part II Recognizing arrhythmias 4 5 6 7 8 paper) 2010022956Ĭontents Contributors and consultants Not another boring forewordĮCG fundamentals Cardiac anatomy and physiology Obtaining a rhythm strip Interpreting a rhythm strip Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ECG interpretation made incredibly easy!. For information, write Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 323 Norristown Road, Suite 200, Ambler, PA 19002-2756. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise- without prior written permission of the publisher, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews and testing and evaluation materials provided by publisher to instructors whose schools have adopted its accompanying textbook. The authors and publisher disclaim any responsibility for any adverse effects resulting from the suggested procedures, from any undetected errors, or from the reader’s misunderstanding of the text.

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