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CELEBRATE!!! This book, Hank's first, has been selected as one of the TOP THREE books in critical care and emergency nursing for 2007 by, none other than, the American Journal of Nursing (AJN)!!! Finaly, after a LONG process, Hank's basic ECG textbook is here. Click the award icon above to go see what AJN's experts have to say about this book!

The book four years to write (much to the chagrin of his editor) and draws on his years of experience teaching ECG classes to all levels of students: from high school grads wanting to become a monitr tech, to nursing students who want to work on a telemetry unit upon graduation to Rehab personnel wanting to understand t monitors more, to critical care nurses wanting to brush up on their knowledge. He has honed his methods to maximize learning while minimizing the time spent on the process. He uses analogies from real life, not medical analogies you may or may not understand, to help drive complex concepts home. Understand how a tollbooth works? Have you ever played catch or sat in a classroom with rowdy children? If you have you are already well on your way to understanding ECG rhythm interpretation. For being one of the first to purchase we will even have the author sign the book! Also, you will get free access to a new area of the website that will help you with your ECG interpretation skills... Although there are over 700 strips, real strips in the book, the website will offer more. The strips are just as good, but did not fit in the book. There will be review tests, with fully explained answers, and strips that are particularly good at explaining difficult concepts. Also, we are going to trial a new section only available to those who purchase the book online with us - ask the ECG experts. We will take your questions on ECG rhythm interpretation and answer them directly to you, or online, hopefully within 72 hours. You get help from the author himself or his resource people. All for FREE, what a deal?! We are also going to offer you a special discount on the book alone, or on a combination of the book and our cards.

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The NEWEST Card, by popular request

The PA Catheter Waveform Card

The PA Cath Cheat Sheet card is the newest in our expanding line of educational adjuncts offered on our site. This card has been reviewed by a transplant cardiologist for accuracy and includes many unusual waveforms. Giant V-waves, absent a-waves, and how to measure the CVP and PAOP are ALL included on here. SHows key features between Now, you can just pull out the PA Cath Cheat Sheet and have the waveforms at your fingertips. Come see Hank at NTI for a SPECIAL DEAL in May 2008.

The long awaited 12-Lead ECG

The 12-Lead ECG Cheat Sheet card has taken alot of effort, and gone through many reviews, but finally we can offer it here for those who have taken a 12-Lead ECG interpretation class, but can't recall the myriad of criteria for most of the recognition areas that they have learned. Now, you can just pull out the 12-Lead ECG Cheat Sheet and have the criteria at your fingertips. As seen at NTI 2007 in Atlanta.

New Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Cheat Sheet

The new IABP Cheat Sheet card is the newest in the slow progression of educational adjuncts offered on our site. Hank, a manufacturer trained trainer for IABPs brings his 10 plus years of experience both caring for balloon pump patients as well as teaching and orienting nurses, respiratory therapists and medical residents, the finer points of IABP theory translated into practice and condenses the most important information into the 4x6 inch cards that have become famous worldwide.

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It is now available, the MI Cheat Sheet (printed on PVC plastic), joins the extremely popular ECG and ABG Cheat Sheet Cards as seen in the Critical Care supplement of the May issue of Nursing2006. The MI Cheat Sheet is in full color and covers which leads are associated with which MI locations and which vessels are most likely involved. Chose a lead on the front of the card and follow its color to the heart drawings on the bottom for a visual representation of location and vessel. Then, flip the card over and follow the same color for leads,, reciprocal leads, vessels(s) and possible problems you may encounter.

The ABG card makes arterial blood gas interpretation a snap. Simply look at the pCO2 in the first column and follow over to the bicarb level in column two and the pH in column three and you will instantly know the results. Not only will you know whether it is respiratory or metabolic and acidosis or alkalosis, but this card will tell you the state of compensation: uncompensated, partially compensated or fully compensated. It reviews the steps in ABG analysis including oxygenation status. And that is all on the front of the card! On the back there are lists of some common causes of the various metabolic imbalances as well as compensation mechanisms to watch for and treatments. Although these lists are not all inclusive, they do help you think through the acid-base disturbance you discovered using the front of the card.

The ECG Cheat Sheet will give you tons of basic rhythm interpretation information, literally at your fingertips. It contains key points of 25 common rhythms including sinus, atrial, junctional and ventricular rhythms as well as AV blocks. Acute MI ECG changes are shown, and the leads involved in different MI locations are also listed. An easy to use heart rate measurement tool and a new tool designed to aid in differentiating those pesky AV blocks, round out the front. On the back there are 27 computer drawn 'perfect' rhythm strips with key features identified to give you visual examples which you can use to hone your interpretation skills Excellent for novices as a learning tool, and skilled practitioners as a quick resource.