Rate, rhythm, axis, the PR interval, QRS width, the ST segment, heart blocks, VT and VF: in your notes it's a wall of text. Here every topic fits on one page, with the drawing and what you need to remember. 67 illustrated pages.
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One topic per page, the drawing that shows you how it's read and the boxes with what you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 8 parts and 63 topics.
You've read the axis chapter three times: degrees, quadrants, a circle full of leads. You close the book...
...and you can't remember which way left axis deviation points. It was just lines of text.
Here the axis is one page: an arrow on a circle, normal from −30° to +90°, and beyond that, left or right deviation, drawn where you can see it.
And on the pages next to it, every step has its own: rate, rhythm, the PR interval, QRS width and the ST segment.
First you understand why it's read that way. Then the order stays with you on its own.
The grid and the leads, rate and rhythm, axis and PR, QRS, ST and QT, sinus and fast rhythms, heart blocks, life-threatening rhythms and the ward: 67 pages, all illustrated
Imagine this:
Instead of rereading half a page on the QRS without being able to picture it...
...you open the page and find the QRS drawn on the grid: under 3 small squares it's narrow, 3 or more it's broad, and what that tells you about where the beat started.
And rate, rhythm, axis, heart blocks and VT turn into drawings and tables you can read at a glance.
You stop repeating and start understanding.
That's exactly what The Illustrated ECG does. It isn't ‘just another textbook’. It's 8 parts and 67 illustrated pages, one topic per page, ending with 3 worked strips, the most frequent mistakes and the 8-step pocket checklist.
Because what your brain sees organized, it remembers.
What the ECG records, the conduction pathway, one beat labelled, the small and big square, the calibration box and the 12 leads with the wall each one sees.
The 8 steps on one page, the 300 and 1500 rules, rate when the rhythm is irregular, and regular or irregular rhythm.
Axis with leads I and aVF, the P wave and its size, the PR interval, short and long PR, and absent or odd P waves.
QRS width, R wave progression, Q waves, the ST segment and J point, ST elevation and depression, T waves, and the QT with QTc.
Sinus rhythm as your reference, sinus bradycardia, tachycardia and arrhythmia, AF, atrial flutter, SVT and ectopic beats.
First-degree block, Mobitz I and Mobitz II, complete heart block, and right and left bundle branch block.
VT, VF, asystole, PEA, shockable and non-shockable rhythms, and torsades de pointes.
Artefact, swapped limb leads, what to report straight away, handing over with SBAR, 3 worked strips, the most frequent mistakes and the pocket checklist.
At the end of the book: 3 worked strips, the most frequent mistakes and the 8-step pocket checklist.
Practise the 8 steps on real-style strips, with every answer worked through in the same order, so the method sticks before your next shift or assessment.
The most frequent misreadings, each drawn next to the correct reading, plus printable pocket cards to check yourself on the ward.
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PDF by email: The Illustrated ECG reaches your inbox as a PDF, and the two free books come by email too. One-time payment, no installments or hidden costs.
The ECG one step per page, to revise between shifts, study days and placement.
The whole 8-step method on one page, 3 worked strips and a pocket checklist to check yourself before the day.
A quick visual refresher for HCAs, returning nurses and paramedics: rhythms, heart blocks and what to report straight away.
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You have 30 days to try The Illustrated ECG and the two bonus books. If it isn't what you needed, email us, tell us what didn't work and we'll refund 100% of what you paid. One-off payment, no subscription, no surprises.
After you buy, you get an email with The Illustrated ECG as a high-resolution PDF, to read on your phone or print. The two bonus books, ECG Practice Strips: Read Them Step by Step and ECG Common Mistakes & Quick-Reference Cards, also come as PDFs by email.
A one-off payment of £19.99. No instalments and no subscription. At checkout you'll see some optional extras; you don't need them, and you only pay for what you tick.
Healthcare assistants who record ECGs and want to read them, nursing associates, student nurses and apprentices, nurses on a Return to Practice programme and paramedics who want a fixed method. It starts from the small square, so you don't need to know ECGs already, and it works as a quick refresher if you do. Have a look at the contents above to see every topic.
It uses the standard reading method taught in the UK and in Australia: standard 25 mm/s paper, the same normal values and the same 8 steps. Arrest and tachycardia content follows Resuscitation Council UK guidance (Adult Advanced Life Support and the adult tachycardia and bradycardia algorithms), which, like ANZCOR's, is based on the same international ILCOR consensus. ECG recording follows the SCST guidelines for a standard 12-lead ECG, and handover is done with SBAR. Always follow your local protocols.
No. It's independent study material. It isn't published or endorsed by any health service, regulator or resuscitation council (for example the NHS, NMC, HCPC, Resuscitation Council UK, ANZCOR, NMBA or AHPRA), and it doesn't come with a certificate or CPD hours. It's there to help you read ECGs with a fixed method.
No. It's study material to revise and practise reading ECGs. It doesn't replace your course, your placement, your employer's protocols or clinical judgement, and it gives no medication or treatment advice.
No. They're written for this book and aren't official questions from any exam or assessment. They're there to train the 8 steps.
Yes. It's a PDF you can print in full or page by page. The pocket checklist and the quick-reference cards are made to keep to hand.
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You don't have to reread the same page hoping it sticks this time.
You don't have to memorise rhythms you can't picture.
And you certainly don't have to face the strip without knowing where to start.
There's a simpler way. And it's one click away. Now it's your turn.
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