Harilal K Nair - Basic Concepts of EKG: A Simplified Approach

Basic Concepts of EKG

A Simplified approach

Harilal K Nair MSN ANP CCRN-CMC

APRN World

USA

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This book is intended for beginners and professionals who are trying to develop better understanding of basic concept of EKG and its analysis. Therefore, this book is in no way a substitution to clinical judgment as well as established medical guidelines for actual patient care in the field. Since the modern medicine is a dynamic arena with constant addition of newer knowledge from clinical research, the author and the reviewers made genuine efforts to include most accurate and up to date information in all parts of this book. However, because of the ever-changing nature of technology and science, the author or publisher is not responsible for any inaccuracies of information especially related to drugs and devises described in this book. Since this book is not meant as a resource for active patient care, the individual learners are expected to take best efforts to identify most updated information in this regard from other available sources.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9885701-0-8

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Preface

Basic concepts of EKG- A simplified approach is an attempt to make the complex nature of EKG analysis to fairly simple and logical endeavor. A rationalized approach with simplified analogy method is used throughout this book. I believe in the simple to complex and concrete to abstract nature of student learning and therefore, a substantial effort has been made to make each and every concepts of EKG in to simple building blocks for a complex learning process. With conscious awareness, I havent gone much in to the complexities of electrophysiology as they may be bit advanced for targeted learners without more practical experience with EKG analysis. I would like my readers to consider this book as one of the basic textbooks they use to build a strong foundation for their advanced learning.

I would like to reiterate the basic concept for effective use of this book that every part is important in building a stable foundation for further advancement in EKG analysis. Being a constant leaner by myself, I dont appreciate books with complex concepts without sufficient explanations. Therefore, being very critical to my work, I did my best effort to remove any clutter and made it simple and up to the point with adequate rational explanations of events in all possible ways.

In order to facilitate multisensory learning of core ideas, appropriate drawings and highlights of important points are included throughout this book. I hope this will enable the students to easily skim through the chapters after their initial thorough reading. All of the important points are color coded and highlighted so that they are more visible than simple detailed mono color paragraphs of the traditional books.

I understand the fact that there are errors in every work no matter how many reviewers sweep through it. Therefore, I would like my readers to send us feedback so that we can improve ourselves for our future editions. I highly appreciate your comments and looking forward for every opportunity to improve and help someone to understand the complexities of modern medicine.

I would like to thank my mentors and support team for constant encouragement, support and confidence that they impart on me to make this book a reality in considerably short period of time. Without them and above all, the help of god almighty, I wouldnt be able to make this project a success.

Sincerely

Harilal K Nair MSN ANP-C CCRN- CMC

Consultants and Reviewers

Dr. Ashis Mukherjee MD

Medical Director,

Inland Empire Heart and

Vascular Institute (IEHVI)

2101 N waterman Ave

San Bernardino CA 92404

Dr. Prabhdeep Sethi MD, MPH

Interventional Cardiology

IEHVI, 2101 N waterman Ave SBD 92404

Susan Elwell RN MSN

Clinical Educator, Cardiac Services

St Bernadine Medical Center

2101 N waterman Ave SBD 92404

Francis McDowell RN PA-C

Cardiovascular Quality Coordinator

IEHVI, 2101 N Waterman Ave SBD 92404

John Staples RN

Cardiac catheterization Laboratory

IEHVI, St Bernadine Medical Center

2101 N waterman Ave SBD 92404

Helen Bigelow RN CCRN

Cardiac Services

St Bernadine Medical Center

2101 N Waterman Ave SBD 92404

Arlene DaJose RN BSN CCRN

Cardiac catheterization Laboratory

IEHVI, St Bernadine Medical Center

2101 N waterman Ave SBD 92404

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