• 1. Introduction.- Target Audience.- Electrocardiography and Physical Examination.- The Clinical Nature of Electrocardiography.- How to Use This Book.- About the Tracings.- 2. Methods.- Methods.- Summary of Rules, Assumptions, Methods, and Criteria for EKG Interpretation.- 3. A Guide to Use of the Collection.- Consider.- A Tutorial: The Mechanism.- A Tutorial: Examination of One Heartbeat.- The Collection.- 4. The Collection of Electrocardiograms.- Appendix I. Definitions.- The Tracing and its Components.- Technical Features of the Tracing.- Vocabulary.- Appendix II. Abbreviations Used in This Book.

"... provides a summary of rules by which clinicians can document their EKG findings and compare them with the patient's history and physical examination. He also provides worksheets for analyzing an EKG step-by-step. The worksheets are easily photocopied for practice and he provides short forms for use once the longer version becomes second nature. The Annotated Atlas of Electrocardiography is recommended for medical and academic libraries. It is useful for medical and nursing students, clinicians, pathologists and technicians."-E-Streams Academic Library Book Review