Ideal for trainees and practicing clinicians, Goldberger's Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach, 10th Edition, covers the basics of ECG analysis and interpretation, as well as the differential diagnoses, underlying causes, and therapeutic implications of ECG findings. The authors’ award-winning, systematic approach takes readers though the nuts and bolts of ECG interpretation. Beyond these essential details, the text serves as an invaluable and unique asset in hospital wards, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, and especially intensive and cardiac care units, where the recognition of normal and abnormal patterns is only the starting point in patient care.

PART ONE: Basic Principles and Patterns

Essential Concepts: What is an ECG?

ECG Basics: Waves, Intervals, and Segments

How to Make Basic Measurements

ECG Leads

The Normal ECG

Electrical Axis and Axis Deviation

Atrial and Ventricular Enlargement

Ventricular Conduction Disturbances: Bundle Branch Blocks and Related Abnormalities

Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction, Part I: ST Segment Elevation and Q Wave Syndromes

Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia, Part II: Non-ST Segment Elevation and Non–Q Wave Syndromes

Drug Effects, Electrolyte Abnormalities, and Metabolic Disturbances

Pericardial, Myocardial, and Pulmonary Syndromes

PART TWO: Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances

Sinus and Escape Rhythms

Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Part I: Premature Beats and Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias

Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Part II: Atrial Flutter and Atrial Fibrillation

Ventricular Arrhythmias

Atrioventricular (AV) Conduction Disorders, Part I: Delays, Blocks, and Dissociation Syndromes

Atrioventricular (AV) Conduction Abnormalities, Part II: Preexcitation (Wolff-Parkinson-White) Patterns and Syndromes

PART THREE: Special Topics and Reviews

Bradycardias and Tachycardias: Review and Differential Diagnosis

Digitalis Toxicity

Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Cardiac Death Syndromes

Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Essentials for Clinicians

Interpreting ECGs: An Integrative Approach

Limitations and Uses of the ECG

ECG Differential Diagnoses: Instant Replays