Critical Decisions in Emergency and Acute Care Electrocardiography [Paperback]

This scenario-based text provides answers to urgent and emergent questions in acute, emergency, and critical care situations focusing on the electrocardiogram in patient care management. The text is arranged in traditional topics areas such as ACS, dysrhythmia, etc yet each chapter is essentially a question with several cases illustrating the clinical dilemma – the chapter itself is a specific answer to the question.

This is a unique format among textbooks with an ECG focus. The clinical scenarios cover the issues involved in detecting and managing major cardiovascular conditions. Focused, structured discussion then solves these problems in a clinically relevant, rapid, and easy to read fashion.

This novel approach to ECG instruction is ideal for practicing critical care and emergency physicians, specialist nurses, cardiologists, as well as students and trainees with a special interest in the ECG.

Section Editors, vii

Contributors, viii

Preface, xi

Forewords, xii

Part 1 The ECG in Clinical Practice, 1

1 What are the clinical applications of the ECG in emergency and critical care? 3

2 What are the indications for the ECG in the pediatric emergency department? 12

3 What are the limitations of the ECG in clinical practice? 19

4 Is the ECG indicated in stable, non-cardiac patients admitted to the hospital? 24

5 What is the use of the ECG in preoperative assessment and cardiovascular risk stratification? 28

6 Which patients benefit from continuous electrocardiographic monitoring during hospitalization? 33

Part 2 The ECG in Cardinal Presentations, 39

7 How should the ECG be used in the syncope patient? 41

8 How should the ECG be ulÃS