Cardiac Electrophysiology: A Visual Guide for Nurses, Techs, and Fellows
"Paul Purves is a unique EP technologist who has coupled his technical expertise and knowledge of EP with a passion for understanding the underpinnings of the study, and teaches what he knows to other technologists, nurses, and indeed physicians. He is a gifted teacher who has coordinated and assembled the collective wisdom of our team into this reader-friendly and unique visual guide to performing and understanding the arrhythmia study. It surpasses the needs of a simple introduction and will be useful to all levels of trainee who want to understand what is really going on and move to the next level."--George J. Klein, MD, FRCP(C)--From the ForewordDescriptionPractitioners new to the field of electrophysiology need a training manual that illustrates concepts. Using large, easy-to-read diagrams and illustrations, this book helps to meet this need.PurposeInitially designed as a workbook with a collection of tracings to illustrate the basic concepts of electrophysiology to students and electrophysiology fellows, this publication has expanded to become a more comprehensive book and training manual. Large, easy-to-read illustrations help explain the topics.AudienceIt is intended to be used by nurses, technologists, students, and electrophysiology fellows performing diagnostic studies used in the treatment of tachycardia. All of the contributing authors work in the division of cardiology at the University of Western Ontario.FeaturesThe book begins with a discussion of the basic concepts of catheter placement, signal processing, basic conduction intervals, conduction velocity and refractoriness. It then provides more descriptive detail on supraventricular tachycardia diagnostic studies and progresses to more advanced rhythm tracings. The large, colorful, easy-to-read illustrations are the best feature of this book. The supplemental commentaries accompanying each tracing also are very useful for beginning practitioners.AssessmentThis would be very useful as a training manual or reference for beginning practitioners. I anticipate that it would be kept in an electrophysiology lab so that staff could refer to the illustrations and descriptions.----Doody Review by Elaine Hannigan, RN, MSN(Purdue University School of Nursing)