Electrocardiography for Health Care Personnel prepares users for a national ECG certification examination, as well as providing ECG skills training for health care students and health care personnel who are interested in mastering additional skills. The text includes the essential skills needed to perform an ECG, including anatomy of the heart, basic characteristics, equipment, appropriate intervention, and other technical applications, such as Holter monitoring and stress testing. Emphasis throughout the text is placed on troubleshooting.

An Electrocardiogram manual for students who want to become EKG technicians.

Providing a solid foundation in current ECG technology as well as the newest diagnostic applications, Marriott's Practical Electrocardiography, Thirteenth Edition, delivers the information you need to quickly improve your ECG interpretive skills. Authors Dr. David G. Strauss and Dr. Douglas D. Schocken offer medical students, residents and fellows a detailed explanation of the ECG, rhythm analysis, and how to rapidly and accurately interpret ECG results. Helpful diagrams, tables, animations, and videos, plus new ECG quizzes online, improve your understanding and skills.

his book is designed to teach healthcare professionals how to identify the basics of heart electrophysiology, cardiac arrhythmias, and 12 lead ECG. This unique approach has been used in paramedic, physician assistant, nurse practitioner and nursing programs to provide an easy and visual means to learn these important fundamental concepts. Difficult areas such as heart blocks, tachy arrhythmias, pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators are explained in a simple and understandable way. How to read a 12 lead ECG is presented in a step-by-step format making it easy for anyone to identify a STEMI versus conditions that mimic a STEMI. Practice rhythm strips and 12 lead ECGs and used throughout the book to reinforce knowledge gains. The Author has 25 years of experience as a paramedic as well as a physician assistant working in the areas of cardiology and emergency medicine. He has trained thousands of students in a variety of cardiovascular topics.

Provides ECG skills training for health care students as well as health care personnel who are interested in mastering additional skills.