The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina Diagnosis and Risk Stratification /

• Main Authors: Wellens, Hein J.J. (Author), Gorgels, Anton P.M. (Author), Doevendans, Pieter A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, 245
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Infectious diseases.; Bacteriology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.
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The electrocardiogram (ECG) remains the most accessible and inexpensive diagnostic tool to evaluate the patient presenting with symptoms suggestive of acute myocardial ischemia. It plays a crucial role in decision making about the aggressiveness of therapy especially in relation to reperfusion thera...

Table of Contents:

• Determining the size of the area at risk, the severity of ischemia, and identifying the site of occlusion in the culprit coronary artery
• Conduction disturbances in acute myocardial infarction
• Myocardial infarction in the presence of abnormal ventricular activation
• Arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction
• The electrocardiographs signs of reperfusion
• The electrocardiogram in unstable angina.