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'ECGs by Example' notes on the book

        Authors: Dean Jenkins and Stephen Gerred
      Reviewers: Hamish Charleson and Hugh McAllister
Publishing team: Laurence Hunter and Barbara Simmons
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Acknowledgements

Dr Michael Belz should be spelt thus.

Section 1 - supraventricular rhythms

• normal sinus rhythm is Dean Jenkins
• sinus arrhythmia is Gowan Creamer then a House Surgeon at Waikato
• AVRT antidromic was supplied by Michael Belz
• SVT with aberrancy was supplied by David Nicholls now a medical registrar in Wellington

Section 2 - Ventricular rhythms

• polymorphic VT was supplied by the CCU at Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Wales
• Ventricular flutter was the most difficult recording to scan, clean and reproduce and took Stephen Gerred several weeks to finish.
• Ventricular fibrillation - the story is true!

Section 3 - Bundle Branch Block

• incomplete RBBB is Stephen Gerred

Section 4 - Heart Block

Section 5 - Pacemakers

• Ventricular pacemaker - Fig. 44.2 is entirely wrong and is a copy of Fig. 5.3 Digoxin effect! The real Fig. 44.2 is shown below.
  
• Dual Chamber Pacing - the list of common indications has been doubled

Section 6 - Ischaemic Heart Disease

• Acute anteroseptal MI - This recording has been borrowed by the University of Wales College of Medicine for their 1st Clinical Year Medical Block Assessment
• Acute Inferior MI was the first recording to be scanned and reprinted by us. We made it difficult to see that the process would work. It was photocopied crumpled into a ball, flattened and photocopied again before scanning.
• Very early acute inferior MI was supplied by David Nicholls
• Acute right ventricular MI - OK the box showing V4R was added so it was a little cheat.

Section 7 - Hypertrophy Patterns

Section 8 - Miscellaneous

• Hypothermia - the extra strip showing extreme changes was supplied by Dr Marjorie Vanderpyl, Consultant Accident and Emergency Department, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, NZ.
• Pericarditis was supplied by Dr Peter Williams, Rheumatologist, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Wales.
• Electrical and muscular interference recordings were supplied by Mrs Carol Rough, ECG Technician, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, NZ.
• 'Technical' Dextrocardia was taken from Walter Flapper who was a Kiwi Medical student visiting the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Wales.

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