Ideal for students and as a review for practicing clinicians, Goldberger's Clinical Electrocardiography explains the fundamentals of ECG interpretation and analysis, helping facilitate an understanding of rhythm disorders and the relevant clinical outcomes. The authors take readers through the nuts and bolts of ECG, using Dr. Ary Goldberger's award-winning teaching style to clarify complex concepts in an easy-to-read manner. You'll learn simple waveform analysis and beyond to present ECGs as they are used in hospital wards, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, and most especially intensive care units - where the recognition of normal and abnormal patterns is the starting point in patient care.

New to this Edition
•Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
•Includes new self-assessment ECGs and questions in the Expert Consult eBook.
•Enhances your understanding of difficult concepts through several new illustrations and animations.
•Highlights the latest information on intraventricular and atrioventricular (AV) conduction disturbances; sudden cardiac arrest; myocardial ischemia and infarction; drug toxicities; and electronic pacemakers and ICDs.

Key Features
•Includes Clinical Pearls and Review Points in each chapter, as well as indispensable self-tests on interpreting and using ECGs to formulate diagnoses.
•Covers the nuts and bolts of ECG, explaining how to read the data and then interpret the subsequent clinical findings.
•Features practical, comprehensive coverage of the true-to-life clinical appearance of ECGs.
•Provides ECG differential diagnoses so you can answer the question, "What else could it be?"

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 Infarction and Ischemia, 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 Effects 



Pericardial, Myocardial, and Pulmonary Syndromes 

　 PART TWO: Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances
13. Sinus and Escape Rhythms 

14. Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Part I: Premature Beats and Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias (PSVTs) 

15. Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Part II: Atrial Flutter and Atrial Fibrillation 

16. Ventricular Arrhythmias

17. AV Conduction Abnormalities, Part I: Delays, Blocks, and Dissociation Syndromes

18. 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 


20. Digitalis Toxicity

21. Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Cardiac Death 

22. Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Essentials for Clinicians 

23. Interpreting ECGs: An Integrative Approach 

24. Limitations and Uses of the ECG 

25. ECG Differential Diagnoses: Instant Replays