"This handy quick reference puts the essentials of ECG interpretation and management right at your fingertips!"--Cover.

Includes chapter summaries and review questions ; DVD includes 200 practice rhythms. "2010 ECC guidelines"--Cover. Includes index, glossary and self-assessment tasks.

Anatomy and physiology of the heart --Electrocardiogram: basic concepts and lead monitoring -- Components of the electrocardiogram -- Eight steps to ECG interpretation and analysis -- Sinus node dysrhythmias -- Atrial dysrhythmias -- Junctional dysrhythmias -- Ventricular dysrhythmias -- Atrioventricular blocks -- Clinical significance and treatment of dysrhythmias -- 12-lead electrocardiogram -- Electrical axes and vectors -- Bundle branch and fascicular blocks -- Pacemaker and implantable defibrillator rhythms -- Other assorted ECG findings -- Acute coronary syndrome: pathophysiology -- Diagnostic ECG changes in specific myocardial infarctions -- Signs, symptoms, and diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes -- Management of acute coronary syndromes.