Atlas of Pediatric and Youth ECG

Succeeds in making the complex interpretation of in ECG pediatric age more comprehensible

Features an exceptionally wide range of ECG recordings and examples

Provides advice on the use of ECG for pre-participation sport screenings of children, adolescents and young athletes

Autorentext

Gabriele Bronzetti works as a clinical pediatric cardiologist at the S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital in Bologna, Italy, and as Professor and tutor in the Master of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Bologna. He got his degree in medicine in 1993 and, after specializing in Cardiology, he spent his fellowship at the University of Liège, Belgium, in 1997, and later in Toronto, Canada, for a Clinical fellowship in Electrophysiology at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is regular volunteer at the Mission Luisa Guidotti Hospital, Zimbabwe. Beside his academic publishing activity of papers, he is columnist for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera .

Inhalt

1 Introduction.- 2 Basic concepts of electrocardiography.- 3 The waves during the evolutive age.- 4 Magic numbers in cardiology- mathematics of the heart.- 5 ECG metamorphosis, from newborn to adult.- 6 Normal and variants.- 7 Supraventricular arrhythmias.- 8 Ventricular arrhythmias.- 9 Athlete's heart.- 10 Congenital heart disease.- 11 Conclusions.