Maria Albina Galli • Gian Battista Danzi
2013
This manual is meant for cardiologists, pediatricians, neonatologists, pediatric cardiac surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, nursing personnel, medical students and residents who possess the basic knowledge to read an ECG and need to know the specific procedures to apply to pediatrics. This manual provides a highly simplified method for pediatric ECG analysis. It requires observing only a few elements but allows for the immediate recognition of a pathological condition. Part I delineates the ECG reading method to follow, as well as describing normal pediatric ECG parameters. Part II provides a description of pathological scenarios specific to pediatrics. Finally, in Part III, the manual provides the most common applications for pediatric ECGs.