Book Review: ‘Pediatric Arrhythmias and EKGs for the Health Care Provider’

Book Review: ‘Pediatric Arrhythmias and EKGs for the Health Care Provider’ Pediatric cardiology can seem daunting to clinicians, not in small measure due to the anatomic and physiological changes that evolve across the age span from neonate through teen, and various pediatric-specific conditions, such as uncorrected congenital heart defects, not often seen in adults.Nurses involved with pediatric cardiac monitoring, running rhythm strips, or obtaining multiple-lead EKG tracings need a good understanding of the relationships among anatomy, physiology, and EKG patterns, along with skills to support infants and children being monitored or undergoing an EKG, so that accurate cardiac data can be collected and appropriate treatment can be initiated.Sections III and IV present a comprehensive yet easy-tounderstand overview of typical and atypical EKG patterns in pediatrics and their interpretation; this portion of the text documents an exhaustive list of pediatric cardiac abnormalities and atypicalities as seen on EKG, including samples of tracings across a wide array of age groups and conditions, with some brief, related description.