Different learners master these skills with different strengths and at different rates. The approach in this book allows for these various learning styles and yet may still be helpful to the more experienced clinician interested in a different perspective for reviewing the fundamentals. Many EKG texts delve heavily into the physics and myocardial electrophysiology associated with EKGs and overwhelm and confuse the early learner. This book avoids lengthy discussions of theory and uses wide spacing, open pages, simple text and diagrams to allow for a speedier mastery of the basics. However, this simplicity occurs at the expense of detail.
Omissions are especially apparent in the sections covering conduction blocks and hypertrophy.
On the other hand, the chapters covering myocardial infarction and axis determination, while brief and succinct, are actually quite thorough and adequately cover the essentials. The biggest deficit is the small number of practice EKGs appearing at the end of each chapter. Learning the theory about why an EKG change occurs must take place in the context of visual identification of that change, to be clinically useful. The sketches and artwork are basic but, again, by keeping it simple, the teaching message is left clear and uncluttered. This book would probably be highly valuable to a visual learner.