Ary L. Goldberger, MD, FACC, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Margret and HA Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.



PART ONE: Basic Principles and Patterns


  1. Essential Concepts: What is an ECG?

  2. ECG Basics: Waves, Intervals, and Segments

  3. How to Make Basic Measurements

  4. ECG Leads

  5. The Normal ECG

  6. Electrical Axis and Axis Deviation

  7. Atrial and Ventricular Enlargement

  8. Ventricular Conduction Disturbances: Bundle Branch Blocks and Related Abnormalities

  9. Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction, Part I: ST Segment Elevation and Q Wave Syndromes

  10. Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia, Part II: Non-ST Segment Elevation and Non¿Q Wave Syndromes

  11. Drug Effects, Electrolyte Abnormalities, and Metabolic Disturbances

  12. Pericardial, Myocardial, and Pulmonary Syndromes

    13. PART TWO: Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances

  13. Sinus and Escape Rhythms

  14. Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Part I: Premature Beats and Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias

  15. Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Part II: Atrial Flutter and Atrial Fibrillation

  16. Ventricular Arrhythmias

  17. Atrioventricular (AV) Conduction Disorders, Part I: Delays, Blocks, and Dissociation Syndromes

  18. Atrioventricular (AV) Conduction Abnormalities, Part II: Preexcitation (Wolff-Parkinson-White) Patterns and Syndromes

    19. PART THREE: Special Topics and Reviews

  19. Bradycardias and Tachycardias: Review and Differential Diagnosis

  20. Digitalis Toxicity

  21. Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Cardiac Death Syndromes

  22. Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Essentials for Clinicians

  23. Interpreting ECGs: An Integrative Approach

  24. Limitations and Uses of the ECG

  25. ECG Differential Diagnoses: Instant Replays