By Peter F. Semple
This useful sized pocket reference is designed to supply knowledgeable yet concise evaluation of the most important components of high blood pressure that might be of curiosity and relevance to clinicians. hugely illustrated in complete colour, with lucid textual content and tough self-assessment questions, the e-book could be of curiosity to citizens and different physicians fearful to replace their wisdom during this box.
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I ... ~,--- TIM E 0 V. C. G. RIGHT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY This record shows regular sinus rhythm. 00, and the P axis is +15 degrees. The horizontal (JIS axis has a double transition, one between V2 and V3, the other at VII-V6. There is clearly excess anterior force. The horizontal T axis is about -110, the P axis is about +10 degrees. There is evidence of left and possible right atrial enlargement. The rightward and anterior QRS forces suggest right ventricular hypertrophy, and the T changes suggest right ventricular strain (and/or anterior ischemia).
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This difference is greatest during diastole, and is least just after the spike potential, when the cells are on the plateaus of their action potentials. This is why an "ST segment shift" is really a baseline shift. We also see that it is not telling us anything about the mystical word "injury", and we see no "current of injury". The EKG does not measure current. 41 It is simply a voltmeter. An ST segment shift therefore usually tells us that we have a significant group of cells that is working under severe ischemia or under adverse mechanical circumstances, and that the resting potentials of these cells are reduced compared to that of the normal cells.
