Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Clinical Electrocardiography
The constantly increasing use of the electrocardiograph among clinicians, especially in hospitals and clinics, prompted the writing of this book. Much of the recent knowledge pertaining to cardi ology has been obtained by careful study of the cardiac mechanism, normal and abnormal, as revealed by graphic methods of precision. The diagnosis of arhythmias, the localization of conduction lesions, and the identification of obscure tachycardias have been greatly simplified by electrocardiographic study. Much valuable knowl edge pertaining to prognosis has been obtained, particularly with reference to abnormalities of the Q R S complex and to negativity of the ventricular T wave in isolated and combined derivations. The attempt must always be made to translate the facts that are determined graphically into practical clinical knowledge. Electro cardiography must always remain subsidiary to practical methods of physical diagnosis, but its value as a most important clinical adjunct cannot be too strongly emphasized.
I have attempted to present the subject of electrocardiography in a logical manner and to consider the fundamental principles, the technic of obtaining records, disorders of the cardiac mechan ism, organic and functional, and, when data were available, facts regarding prognosis.
An effort has been made to obviate the difficulties confronting beginners by correlating physiologic and pathologic aspects of cardiac disease and by simplifying the classification of disorders of mechanism.
The bibliography is not complete, but the references chosen largely are of distinct contributary value.
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