Comprehensive EKG Interpretation for Family Medicine

Comprehensive EKG Interpretation for Family Medicine

This guide offers an in-depth understanding of cardiac anatomy and physiology, heart monitor usage, and the accurate interpretation of EKG readings, including:

  • Identifying normal sinus rhythms
  • Assessing cardiac and respiratory conditions
  • Recognizing sinus node, atrial, junctional, and ventricular arrhythmias
  • Evaluating AV conduction abnormalities
  • Understanding pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD)
  • Identifying drug-related EKG changes
  • Diagnosing bundle branch blocks
  • Interpreting 3-lead, 5-lead, and 12-lead EKG tracings
  • Detailed electrode placement diagrams

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Understanding Abnormal EKG Readings for Family Medicine

This resource offers a detailed approach to recognizing and interpreting abnormal EKG patterns to assist in diagnosing, monitoring, and evaluating the severity of various heart conditions, including:

  • Coronary artery blockages
  • Acute myocardial infarction (Heart attack)
  • Chronic heart failure
  • Unusual heart sounds (Murmurs)
  • Diseases affecting the heart muscle (Cardiomyopathy)
  • Pericardial inflammation (Pericarditis)
  • Irregular heart rhythms (Arrhythmias)

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Enhanced EKG Analysis in Family Medicine

Enhance your skills in interpreting EKG patterns to spot irregularities and abnormalities, an essential expertise in Family Medicine.

Recognize conditions arising from disturbances in the heart's electrical system due to medications and substances like amphetamines, over-the-counter cold and allergy medications, beta blockers, and cocaine.

Learn to identify structural changes that may indicate potential heart problems or defects, such as enlargement of the heart chambers or walls.

Learn EKG Conduction Patterns for Family Medicine Boards

Make EKG Interpretation Easier for Family Medicine with a Methodical Approach

Classification of supraventricular tachycardia

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More than 3,000 highly detailed graphics, tables, diagrams, flow charts and illustrations.

The UMock methodology helps organize the underlying basic concepts with a high quality presentation of visual aids.

The use of visual aids from UMock makes it easier to understand complex concepts, improve retention, and reduce study time.

Visually rich Qbank graphics

More than 3,000 highly detailed graphics, tables, diagrams, flow charts and illustrations.

The UMock methodology helps organize the underlying basic concepts with a high quality presentation of visual aids.

The use of visual aids from UMock makes it easier to understand complex concepts, improve retention, and reduce study time.

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Course Content

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● Cardiac Muscle

● Cardiac Chambers

● Coronary Artery Anatomy

● Cardiac Conduction System

● Cardiac Action Potentials

● Cardiac Innervation

● Cardiac Cycle

● Electrocardiogram

● ECG Electrodes

● Limb Leads

● Precordial Leads

● Contiguous Leads

● ECG Paper

● ECG Recording

● ECG Waves

● ECG Segments and Intervals

● Heart Rate Determination

● Cardiac Axis Determination

● Electrode Misplacement

● P Wave

● PR Interval

● QRS Complex

● R Wave Progression

● ST Segment

● T Wave

● QT Interval

● U Wave

● Atrial Enlargement

● Ventricular Enlargement

● Classification of Arrhythmias

● Tachyarrhythmias

● AV Nodal Reentry Tachycardia (AVNRT)

● Classification of AVNRT

● Atrioventricular Reentry Tachycardias (AVRT)

● Triggered Activity

● Wide QRS Tachyarrhythmias

● VT versus SVT

● Vereckei Algorithm

● Brugada Algorithm

● Adenosine

● Adenosine Effect on Arrhythmias

● Sinus Tachycardia

● Sinus Bradycardia

● Sinus Dysrhythmias

● Sinus Arrest and Pause

● Sick Sinus Syndrome

● Atrial Arrhythmias

● Wandering Atrial Pacemaker

● Premature Atrial Complexes

● First Degree Heart Block

● Second Degree Heart Block

● Third Degree Heart Block

● Atrial Flutter

● Atrial Fibrillation

● Atrial Tachycardia

● Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia

● Premature Junctional Beat

● Early Repolarization

● Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome

● Junctional Tachycardia

● Benign Early Repolarization

● Ventricular Arrhythmias

● Premature Ventricular Complexes

● Couplets and Bigeminy

● Trigeminy

● Idioventricular Rhythm

● Ventricular Tachycardia

● Torsade de Pointes

● Ventricular Fibrillation

● Asystole

● Hyperkalemia

● Hypokalemia

● Hypercalcemia

● Hypocalcemia

● Hyperthyroidism

● Hypothyroidism

● Digitalis Effect

● ß-Blocker Toxicity

● Sotalol Toxicity

● Calcium Channel Blockers Toxicity

● Quetiapine Toxicity

● Electrical Alternans

● Pericarditis

● Pulmonary Embolism

● Angina

● Acute Coronary Syndrome

● Myocardial Infarction

● STEMI

● Sudden Cardiac Death

● Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

● Cardiac Muscle

● Cardiac Action Potential

● WolfParkinson-White Syndrome

● Hypothermia

● Wellen’s Syndrome

● Myocardial Infarction

● ACS Syndrome

● STEMI

● Pulmonary Embolism

● Brainstem Herniation

● De Winter’s ECG Sign

● Sotalol Toxicity

● Propranolol Toxicity

● Tricyclic Antidepressant Toxicity

EKG Book Content

ABFM EKG Interpretation

Prepare for your exam with UMock EKG Review. Each chapter includes a
complete review of topics with a Q&A at the end of the book.

Sinus Rhythms
Learn how to identify features and qualifying criteria of sinus rhythms including normal, sinus bradycardia, sinus tachycardia, sinus dysrhythmia, sinus arrest, and sinus exit block.
Atrial Rhythms
Recognize complexes and rhythms for premature atrial complexes, wandering atrial pacemaker rhythm, multifocal atrial tachycardia, atrial flutter, and atrial fibrillation.
Junctional Rhythms
Identify features and criteria for premature junctional complexes, junctional escape beats, accelerated junctional rhythm, junctional tachycardia, and supraventricular tachycardia.
Heart Block Rhythms
Review the features and criteria for first degree heart block, second degree heart block type I, second degree heart block type II, and third degree/complete heart block.
Ventricular Rhythms
Identify features of ventricular rhythms including premature ventricular complexes, agonal rhythm, idioventricular and accelerated idioventricular rhythm, ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, and asystole.
Pacemaker Rhythms
Learn how to recognize features of pacemaker rhythms including atrial and ventricular pacemaker rhythm, atrioventricular pacemaker rhythm, and failure to capture.
12-Lead ECG Axis
Review of which major coronary artery supports each area of the heart and learn the fundamentals of electrical axis determination and the presence of cardiac axis deviation.
Performing 12-Lead
Learn 12-lead EKG tracings which presents the electrical activity of the heart on two planes. Leads I, II, III, aVR, aVL, and aVF give a flat view of the heart from surrounding edges of a frontal plane.
Bundle Branch Block
Recognize the features for the presence of a complete left or right bundle branch block.
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
Learn how to recall and apply the process for measurement to determine the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy.
Injury, Ischemia & Infarction
Review of the fundamentals and differences of indicative and reciprocal views, and recognize EKG changes caused by STEMI, ischemia, injury, and infarction.
EKG Terminology
Learn basic EKG terminology including PR interval, QRS complex, QT interval and ST interval.

" The EKG review from UMock goes through everything from the basics to arrhythmias to spotting different myocardial infarctions. This is an essential addition to the resources you’ll need to study for the Family Medicine Board exam. "

Benjamin

Stanford School of Medicine

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