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Ecg Pocket: Clinical Reference Guide

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I used this little book in medical school and I use it still as a Internal Medicine resident, the best book for those who need a quick reference in the clinic coat, the only book I read for step 3 and the boards, highly recommended.

This book is an asset for anyone who MUST deal with cardiac material daily, whether that person is a nurse, cardiac monitor tech, EKG tech, even the doctors, too. I've been through some nursing school, and I know that cardiac material is not nearly stressed enough in the nursing curricula in general. For people in nursing, this book will become a daily bible, because it cuts to the chase on what to look for, why it's likely to be happening, as well as giving a few recommendations for meds. This book should either replace or be in addition to the cardio section of your pathophysiology books. For EKG techs and cardiac monitor techs, there will be lots of details in here that you won't need to know, but you will become familiar with various subtleties, such as the different types of junctional rythyms, and I'm meaning in the sense of the wave-form as opposed to the differences of heart rate with this assessment. There is also material about lead placements, reasons for artifact, the types of deflections, differentiation among the different bundle branch blocks, let alone the second degree blocks. The material in this book is more comprehensible and straightforward than education material in the workplace.

the Pro and Con is that it's around 150 pages or so

the biggest pro is that there are LOTS of examples on the heart rythyms, so confusion can be left behind. If memory is serving me correctly, this book does not include material about the involvement of pacemakers.

As someone that has worked in a cardio post-op unit and been a cardiac monitor tech as well, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book!