The Quest to Know the Human Heart is the history of the discovery of the scientists who disrupted the status quo, often with great pushback from peers, to bring to us new discoveries, knowledge, diagnostic procedures, treatment procedures, and medications in the field of cardiology and cardiac surgery, allowing people of today to live longer and healthier lives. How we got to where we are today is an interesting story of individual human determination and human-placed road blocks, which were overcome by those determined to make progress in the field of heart disease. More people die of heart disease than any other disease. Knowing how we got to where we are today and what the major breakthroughs have been will help those with heart disease to better understand why their physicians have chosen certain diagnostic tests and treatment.

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Dr. Guss grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and majored in Ancient and Medieval European History at Yale University, graduating in 1964. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1968. After training in internal medicine at Harvard at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and serving in the Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health, he was a cardiology fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 1972-1974 and then had an additional cardiology fellowship in cardiac catheterization at Harvard at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, 1974-1975. Dr. Guss practiced cardiology from 1975 until January 10, 2023, in a private cardiology group but also served as Director of Cardiac Catheterization and Angioplasty and Director of Coronary CTA at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, New Jersey, during his practice years. He also served as an officer of the medical staff and has several research papers in cardiology. In 1992 he went to Gothenburg, Sweden, to perform research at the Salgrenska Hospital on a way to prevent restenosis after angioplasty. He retired from the practice of cardiology the day after he turned eighty years old, in January 2023.

The Quest to Know the Human Heart is the history of the discovery of the scientists who disrupted the status quo, often with great pushback from peers, to bring to us new discoveries, knowledge, diagnostic procedures, treatment procedures, and medications in the field of cardiology and cardiac surgery, allowing people of today to live longer and healthier lives. How we got to where we are today is an interesting story of individual human determination and human-placed road blocks, which were overcome by those determined to make progress in the field of heart disease. More people die of heart disease than any other disease. Knowing how we got to where we are today and what the major breakthroughs have been will help those with heart disease to better understand why their physicians have chosen certain diagnostic tests and treatment.

About the Author

Dr. Guss grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and majored in Ancient and Medieval European History at Yale University, graduating in 1964. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1968. After training in internal medicine at Harvard at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and serving in the Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health, he was a cardiology fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 1972-1974 and then had an additional cardiology fellowship in cardiac catheterization at Harvard at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, 1974-1975. Dr. Guss practiced cardiology from 1975 until January 10, 2023, in a private cardiology group but also served as Director of Cardiac Catheterization and Angioplasty and Director of Coronary CTA at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, New Jersey, during his practice years. He also served as an officer of the medical staff and has several research papers in cardiology. In 1992 he went to Gothenburg, Sweden, to perform research at the Salgrenska Hospital on a way to prevent restenosis after angioplasty. He retired from the practice of cardiology the day after he turned eighty years old, in January 2023.

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The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick

For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.

Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world's first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient's circulatory system to a healthy donor's, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker--by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family's history of heart ailments and the patients he's treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.

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A menudo, es esencial poder reconocer rápidamente un estado patológico, pero para poder intervenir con prontitud, es necesario saber interpretar y leer el electrocardiograma, o al menos saber discriminar entre lo que es normal y lo que no lo es.

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Focused coverage and realistic hands-on practice help students master basic arrhythmias
Basic Arrhythmias, Eighth Edition, gives beginning students a strong basic understanding of the common, uncomplicated rhythms that are a foundation for further learning and success in electrocardiography. Concepts are presented in a flexible, progressive approach to allow for self-paced or classroom learning. Chapters cover basic electrophysiology, waves and measurements, rhythm analysis, and the five major groups of arrhythmias. Basic Arrhythmias includes appendices on Clinical Implications, Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology, 12-Lead Electrocardiography, Basic 12-Lead Interpretation, and Pathophysiology of Arrhythmias. Practice EKG rhythm strips are included in most chapters to give students extensive, realistic hands-on practice--the single most important element in developing arrhythmia interpretation skills.

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Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any human-made creation. It beats 100,000 times every day--if you were to live to 100, that would be more than 3 billion beats across your lifespan. Despite decades of effort in labs all over the world, we have not yet been able to replicate the heart's perfect engineering. But, as Sian Harding shows us in The Exquisite Machine, new scientific developments are opening up the mysteries of the heart. And this explosion of new science--ultrafast imaging, gene editing, stem cells, artificial intelligence, and advanced sub-light microscopy--has crucial, real-world consequences for health and well-being.

Harding--a world leader in cardiac research--explores the relation between the emotions and heart function, reporting that the heart not only responds to our emotions, it creates them as well. The condition known as Broken Heart Syndrome, for example, is a real disorder than can follow bereavement or stress. The Exquisite Machine describes the evolutionary forces that have shaped the heart's response to damage, the astonishing rejuvenating power of stem cells, how we can avoid heart disease, and why it can be so hard to repair a damaged heart. It tells the stories of patients who have had the devastating experiences of a heart attack, chaotic heart rhythms, or stress-induced acute heart failure. And it describes how cutting-edge technologies are enabling experiments and clinical trials that will lead us to new solutions to the worldwide scourge of heart disease.

This book is a firm favourite of medical, nursing and paramedic students as it provides clear, easy to follow information on all aspects of using the ECG in clinical practice.

This tenth edition has been fully updated for all healthcare professionals, for those who are still in training, and for those already practising. It is essential reading for all those who use ECGs in their day to day work. It is an easy, practical and informative guide to performing, interpreting and reporting ECGs.

• The first part distils the bare essentials with minimal theory and maximum practicality.
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• The third part includes the clinical interpretation of individual ECGs in patients with chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations and syncope as well as understanding the normal variations in ECGs recorded from healthy subjects.
• All ECGs used in the book are taken from real patients from the authors' clinical practice.

• New section on Single Lead ECG interpretation, increasingly seen on Smart devices.
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ECG & EKG INTERPRETATION

This book will explain to you what an ECG/EKG scan is, and how to interpret one correctly.
Inside, you will learn about the different features of an ECG, and how a normal ECG paper should appear.
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Being able to properly interpret an ECG can be a valuable skill, whether you are in the medical profession, or simply want to be able to understand your own test results.
Being able to correctly identify different arrhythmias and malfunctions can come in handy, especially if you can read and interpret an ECG quickly
As a bonus, this book also provides some steps to ensure your heart stays healthy, so that you can maintain regular ECG results each time

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• What Is An ECG/EKG
• How Is An ECG Done?
• How The Conduction System Of The Heart Works
• How To Identify A Normal Reading
• Different Arrhythmias & How To Identify Them
• How To Improve & Maintain Heart Health
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