Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment helps students and more experienced healthcare practitioners to consolidate their knowledge of ECG interpretation through real-life scenarios.
Andrew Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Head of Echocardiography, Grantham and District Hospital, Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK Dr Andrew R. Houghton studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in Nottingham and Leicester. He was appointed as consultant cardiologist at Grantham & District Hospital in Lincolnshire, UK, in 2002. His subspecialty interest is in non-invasive cardiac imaging, in particular echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI. He has been a member of the British Society of Echocardiography's departmental accreditation committee, and a lecturer at BSE annual congresses. Dr Houghton has co-authored a number of textbooks, including Making Sense of the ECG (now in its sixth edition) and its companion volume Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment, now in its third edition, and is also a faculty member at the Medmastery online medical education website. Making Sense of the ECG has won several awards, including the Royal Society of Medicine's Richard Asher prize and the British Medical Association's Student Textbook Award, while Making Sense of Echocardiography was highly commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards.
