Dynamic Electrocardiography

Dynamic Electrocardiography, 9781405119603 (1405119608), John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Compared to many clinical methods and procedures, electrocardiography is not particularly new. The first human electrocardiogram was recorded by Dr Augustus Desiré Waller in 1887. Since that time, the development of electrocardiography was not uniform. Several waves of advancement of the physiologic understanding and clinical utility of the electrocardiogram can be traced throughout the past century. After the very first human recording, it took about 20 years for more precise equipment to be developed that allowed recordings to be made with sufficient fidelity for meaningful biological interpretation. Another two decades elapsed before the very core and principal rhythm abnormalities were appreciated and classified; it took some further decades to understand the ischaemic patterns in details; and so on.

The most recent wave of electrocardiographic advances resulted from the observations that not only the static snapshots of cardiac electrical activity but also their temporal development carry physiologically important and clinically useful information. In many aspects, the investigation of this dynamicity of electrocardiographic recordings was not only facilitated but directly allowed by modern electronic and computing technologies. Indeed, it is inconceivable to imagine a modern electrocardiograph without substantial electronic and computer components aimed not only at recording the tiny electrical potentials at the body surface but also at their processing and detailed elaboration. Meaningful and important electrocardiographic measurements and valuable clinical diagnoses reached in this way frequently go far beyond the ‘classical’ visual interpretation of the recorded images.

Two well-known and respected editors have assembled an outstanding group of electrophysiologists/physicians to write a major work representing the field of electrocardiography as we know it today. This book contains all the major subject areas within the field of electrocardiography with significant clinical and basic content to appeal to the entire electrophysiology community in addition to educating cardiologists with the latest information. The fact that Drs. Malik and Camm have edited this work assures a volume of incredible quality and readability.

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