I posted in cards forum, but I'll put it here too. I already have Dubin, but I want a book with more practice ECG's to review. I cant read an ECG to save my life...but hopefully I can save the patient's!!! :D Thanks

I posted in cards forum, but I'll put it here too. I already have Dubin, but I want a book with more practice ECG's to review. I cant read an ECG to save my life...but hopefully I can save the patient's!!! :D Thanks

Dubin is as short and sweet as it can get.

If all you want is practice, we have a great tool at Harvard/BIDMC that was put together by Ary Goldberger (who has his own ECG textbook) and Larry Nathanson:

ECG Wave-maven
http://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu/

Nice site. I saved the link.

Also, there's another great book out there called '150 Practice EKGs', available on Amazon. It's just 150 quick-fire EKGs and the reasoning behind the diagnoses; everything from bread-and-butter to Brugada.

Dubin is as short and sweet as it can get.

If all you want is practice, we have a great tool at Harvard/BIDMC that was put together by Ary Goldberger (who has his own ECG textbook) and Larry Nathanson:

ECG Wave-maven
http://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu/

Dubin is good , but was guilty for child porn. I found other EKG books haha.

I posted in cards forum, but I'll put it here too. I already have Dubin, but I want a book with more practice ECG's to review. I cant read an ECG to save my life...but hopefully I can save the patient's!!! :D Thanks

also the EM forum had a good topic about this just a few days ago!

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=270309

I wanted to mention something about the Zimmerman's Clinical Electrocardiography, that I should have when I responded to the OP. It provides lots of ECG's, but the analyses are the key part. It systematically tells you rate, rhythm, axes. Then it goes through and reports on each feature of the ECG (hard data). Afterwards, it synthesizes that data to give an interpretation (LQTS, low limb voltages, RVH/LVH criteria, etc.). It follows-up with a discussion, sometimes with references, that gives the full implication of that interpretation. All of this on a single page per ECG, so it makes for a very quick read.

Many good ECG databases exist, like the one mellow yellow mentions. While they're great for practice, they tend to focus more on glaring pathologies and miss a systematic way of approaching ECG's. I mean, it's great if you catch that a guy's hyperkalemic or having an MI, but if you miss that he's in Mobitz Type II AV block or has features consistent with a ventricular aneurysm, then the resulting management could be disastrous for the patient.

It's just like noticing that pleural effusion on the chest x-ray, but missing the slight increased density in the lung apex, suggestive of a pancoast tumor.

I also recommend Zimmerman's Clinical Electrocardiography. Its meant to be a board review book for cardiologists, but my attending on cards used that book to quiz us on ECGs in addition to the ECGs we read on real patients. They can be hard, but the explanations are good.

I bought the Ferry book, EKG in 10 days off Amazon for $11, so I'll hit that first, then check out Zimmerman from the library. Thanks

I posted in cards forum, but I'll put it here too. I already have Dubin, but I want a book with more practice ECG's to review. I cant read an ECG to save my life...but hopefully I can save the patient's!!! :D Thanks
try an intro to ecg by leo schamroth