3rd Edition

Making Sense of the ECG Cases for Self Assessment

By Andrew R. Houghton Copyright 2025
200 Pages 70 Color Illustrations
by CRC Press

200 Pages 70 Color Illustrations
by CRC Press

200 Pages 70 Color Illustrations
by CRC Press

Reading an ECG correctly and working out what to do next is an invaluable skill for any doctor, nurse or paramedic when evaluating the condition of a patient . Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self Assessment helps students and more experienced healthcare practitioners to consolidate their knowledge of ECG interpretation through real-life scenarios. The patients' history, examination and... Read more

Contains 70 cases. Appendix.

Biography

Dr Andrew R Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in cardiology in Nottingham and Leicester. He has also trained at Stanford University in California and at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, in 2002. His subspecialty interest is in cardiac imaging (echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI). He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London). He has published several textbooks in cardiology, including Making Sense of the ECG (winner of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Richard Asher Prize and the BMA’s Student Textbook Award), Making Sene of the ECG: Cases for Self Assessment and Making Sense of Echocardiography (Highly Commended at the BMA’s Medical Book Awards).