ECGs for Acute, Critical and Emergency Care - Volume 2, 2nd Edition Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9781119986287 ISBN-10: 1119986281 Copyright: 2025 Edition: 2nd Author: Mattu, Amal, Brady, William J., Doody's Expert Review    Score: 85 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: David Dries,  MSE, MD  (Regions Hospital) Description This is the second edition of the second volume in a set describing the utilization of the electrocardiogram in acute resuscitation and other emergency care scenarios. Purpose The book provides practical guidance regarding the use and assessment of the 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) in making a cardiac rhythm diagnosis. It is designed to allow readers to locate and identify objective criteria for various diagnoses using the ECG. It provides additional details regarding diagnoses made with the ECG along with illustrative comments from the authors. The book offers a detailed list of cases, identifies patients based on cardiovascular symptoms, and provides a framework for making a diagnosis using the ECG. Audience A range of providers may utilize this book, including practitioners and students in emergency care, critical care, and cardiology. This book organizes a large number of ECGs to allow readers to collect information from individual cases. The quality of content presented strongly supports the book's teaching objective. The authors are senior emergency medicine physicians with responsibility for EMS direction. Features The book's initial cases present multiple ECGs along with comments on their interpretation that describe dysrhythmias. A second group of cases presents 12-lead ECGs selected to review clinical issues relevant to the emergency providers or intensivists. The book selects lengthy and detailed ECGs for optimal presentation of case scenarios of increasing complexity. A third set of ECG cases are described as advanced presentations. Relevant differential diagnoses are included an appendix. A final group of cases includes atrial and ventricular rhythm changes along with abnormalities of atrial and ventricular rate presentation. These cases include several elements of detail such as the right bundle branch block found in septal leads indicated as a component of left atrial enlargement and Brugada syndrome. Other examples of rhythm changes as indicated by ECG include electrical alternans and Wellens syndrome. Assessment The quality of this book strongly advances the work of the authors. Offering guidance on patient management using electrocardiography is a complex task. It involves recognizing waveform patterns that must be combined with difficult clinical physiology. This book has done this task well for a number of years. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 6 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 3 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 4 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 3 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 4 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 4 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book 4 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 8 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 10 ©2026 Doody Enterprises, Inc.