150 Practice ECGs: Interpretation and Review

Great book! Awesome for building up much needed practice

This is a great book for a doctor (or medical student) who wants to get an understanding of how to analyze ECG's in a clinial setting; it is not designed for the technician who simply wants to learn rhythm interpretation. The first half of this books explains how to interpret the 12 lead ECG, and the second half of the book provides 150 practice ECG's. THis is an excellent book, but there are a few important points about this book that should be considered if you tink that this is the book for you:1. This books discusses almost none of the basic science of the ECG as do many other ECG books.2. Dr. Taylor also writes for an audience that knows some basic information about cardiac physiology, so he does not explain much of this either.3. Many of the practice ECG's are pretty advanced. You have to distinguish in some of them between pericarditis and massive ST-elevation MI's (which look pretty similar on the ECG).4. Much of this book is geared not simply toward ECG interpretation, but toward clinical decision making based on clinical history and ambiguous ECG findings.Overall an excellent book if one already knows aome cardiovascular physiology and wants to get an understanding of how to apply this to 12 ECG interpretation for the purpose of medical decision making.

As a NP student we are required to know the basics of 12 lead. Well, this books spends 50 pages - interspersed info w/ strips that are relatively small (for a book),give some highly detailed information, along w/ the rare easy to understand stuff. Do not feel this book gave up the "education/info" needed to do a lot of the practice strips.Purchase was obviously a mistake. Definately lots of practice strips in the back - Get a magnifying glass if you are over 30. I did go end up purchasing a different book that was much more helpful

Dr. Taylor's ECG book is an extremely useful tool for learning to read and interpret ECGs. By the end of his book, I feel ready to read most any ECG. There is a large variety of tracings so the reader gets practice reading both simple tracings as well as the more challenging ones. Overall this is an excellent text for ECG interpretation and the clinical application.

The practice EKG were awful, old copies of EKG's. Not worth it at all. Don't buy it.

These books are an incredibly poor reproduction of the original print! It looks as though someone ran off copies of the original and bound them. It is especially unfortunate since print quality is so critical when reading ECGs!We purchased these to supplement our library for 3rd year medical students in the IM Clerkship, and we have to tell them to look for the spiral bound versions. The quality is so much worse in these new copies we ordered.I can't tell of any differences in copyright, or edition, or publisher; which makes me wonder if Blackwell Publishing really was defrauded.

Practice is always needed for this kind of thing. Used it as practice in R1, happy with it