Friday, April 26, 2019

Download The Only EKG Book You Will Ever Need Book for Free

It seems incredible that, in a world where new technology becomes obsolete almost before it becomes available, a simple little electrical gizmo, more than a century old, still holds the key to diagnosing so many critically important clinical disorders, from mild palpitations and dizziness to life-threatening heart attacks and arrhythmias. The EKG predates relativity, quantum mechanics, molecular genetics, bebop, Watergate, and, well, you fill in the blank. Hats off, then, to Willem Einthoven and his string galvanometer with which, in 1905, he recorded the first elektrokardiogramm. So here we are, well into the next millennium, and now it is your turn to learn how to use this amazing tool. It is my hope that this little book (itself getting a bit long in the tooth, having first come out in 1988) will make the process fun and easy. Its goals remain the same as they did in the first edition: This book is about learning. It's about keeping simple things simple and complicated things clear, concise, and yes, simple, too. It's about getting from here to there without scaring you to death, boring you to tears, or intimidating your socks off. It's about turning ignorance into knowledge, knowledge into wisdom, and all with a bit of fun. There is a lot of new stuff in this fifth edition. We have, among other things,

updated the sections on basic electrophysiology, rhythm disturbances, and pacemakers, and included many new sample EKGs at the end of the text so you can test your new, hard-won knowledge. Again I must thank Glenn Harper, M.D., not only one of the world's great cardiologists, but also one of its really good guys, for reviewing this book and making sure it is accurate and up to date. To all the folks at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, thanks for once more producing a beautiful and readable text and making the whole process of revising it so simple and enjoyable. And to you readers, I hope that The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need will once again give you everything you need—no more and no less—to read EKGs quickly and accurately.