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Case-based insights: ECGs

A quick guide to ECGs

PD Dr. Carsten W. Israel, Bielefeld

Would you like to improve your ECG interpretation skills? Then this comprehensive, rapid, interactive course is exactly what you need.

  • 50 practice ECGs covering the most common cardiac conditions
  • Practice-oriented, interactive, concise, enjoyable
  • Expert advice provides detailed feedback as you go
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About the author

PD Dr. Carsten W. Israel

Medical Director Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Bielefeld Clinic for Internal Medicine – Cardiology, Diabetology and Nephrology 

Dr. Carsten Israel is an internationally renowned expert in cardiac arrhythmias, especially pacemaker therapy, ICDs, cardiac resynchronization therapy (“biventricular pacing”), atrial fibrillation and the work-up of unclear syncope.

He is particularly interested in the education of young medical professionals, demonstrating his special didactic skills both as a lecturer in cardiology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, as well as a speaker at a wide variety of continuing education courses.

Financial interests

  • Fees for lectures and reimbursement of travel/hotel/congress expenses: Abbott/St. Jude Medical, AOP, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Biotronik, BMS/Pfizer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Boston-Scientific, Daiichi-Sankyo/Lilly, Impulse Dynamics, Medtronic, Microport (Sorin), Sanofi, Servier, Springer Medizin Verlag, Zoll. – European 
  • Advisory Board: Medtronic, Zoll.

Selected editorships

  • Long-time editor-in-chief of the journal Cardiac Pacemaker Therapy and Electrophysiology, also
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the journal Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology (PACE) and
  • Co-editor of the EUROPACE magazine.

Selected memberships in scientific committees

  • Nucleus of the Working Group Rhythmology of the German Society of Cardiology
  • Educational Committee of the European Heart Rhythm Association.

in 2003, Dr. Carsten Israel and colleagues founded the non-profit association East African Heart Rhythm Project (www.eahrp.com) with the aim of financing, organizing and performing pacemaker surgery in East Africa.

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Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. med. Wilhelm Haverkamp

Specialist in internal medicine and cardiology, Cardiology Practice in Spreebogen, Berlin and Charité Berlin

Prof. Dr. med. Lars Eckardt

Director, Department of Cardiology II: Rhythmology, University Hospital Münster

Prof. Dr. med. Harilaos Bogossian

Fellow of the European Heart Rhythm Association (FEHRA), Chief Physician, Department of Cardiology and Rhythmology, Evangelical Hospital Hagen-Haspe

This content was originally published in German and has been translated to English.

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