If you have always seen the tele monitors in the hospital and don't know what the zigzag on it means, this is the book you need when you have to take an intensive critical care course.
This was a required text for my critical care course and amazon did a good job shipping it on time.
I liked the book and as many times as i've studied conduction in my A&P classes, the fact that i'm a physics and chemistry person makes me forget certain stuff in bio. This book does such a good job of explaining conduction in making you really understand what happens in various stages like depolirazion and repolization. I like the approach because you kinda need to know which ions are coming out at each phase so you'll know when to prescribe a calcium channel blocker for a patient and when to prescribe a class II or II antiarrhythmic.
I didn't get time to use the CD because time moves so fast when you're under stress but i did love the pocket companion and the only thing is that it doesn't tell you the treatments in it. You'll have to look at the big book itself to know how to treat a 3rd degree block. I never thought i'd be able to get the heart blocks down in my head but thanks to this book i did.
Just a little thing i'll share with readers, here's one way to remember a wenkenbach. It goes "longer, longer, longer, longer, then you have a wenkenbach."
the P-r interval keeps getting longer and longer till you finally dorp a qrs. My instructor sang it in a silly way and i thought i'd share it. In that way you'll recognize a Mobitz type I when you see one.
I tried different ECG books and this one one worked for me.

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ECG's Made Easy - Book and Pocket Reference Package Paperback – 1 January 2006
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Barbara Aehlert
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I have been a registered nurse for more than 40 years with clinical experience in medical/surgical and critical care nursing and in prehospital education. I particularly enjoy teaching basic dysrhythmia recognition to nurses and paramedics.
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- Rocio FullerReviewed in the United States on 3 January 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars RECOMMEND/LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!
Verified PurchaseI am personally not a fan of reading but this book is interesting and AMAZING!! it breaks down EKG and makes it more simple than ever!!! the first chapter is hard because it involves anatomy and physiology but as you start reading the rest of the chapters it gets easier. At the end of this book you will have the knowledge to describe all the rhythms and measurements, it also has crossword puzzles which makes it challenging and fun. I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.