Author: Norman, Ann E.
Hardback; Book; 150 Illustrations
300 pages
Published: May 1992
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
ISBN: 0071053964
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Nursing students and practicing nurses can learn 12-lead ECG interpretation at their own pace with this self-teaching guide.After reviewing the principles of 12-lead interpretation and basic ECG criteria, the focus turns to the interpretation of ECG strips. Using this text to gain understanding of the 12-lead ECG, you will be able to recognize a normal 12 ECG; locate the frontal plane axis; recognize a normal progression of the R wave in precordial leads; identify enlargements of the four chambers of the heart; identify right and left bundle branch blocks; identify hemiblocks, bifasicular, and trifasicular blocks; identify areas of myocardial ischemia, injury and infarction; state the ECG characteristics of supraventricular aberrancy and ventricular ectopy; recognize ECG chang