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By Antonio Bayes de Luna. 500 pp., illustrated. Mount Kisco, N.Y., Futura, 1993. $88. ISBN 0-87993-545-6.

At last, a textbook that approaches the ideal for practitioners and teachers of electrocardiography. It takes its place among a large number of books ranging from the supersimplistic, with rigid paradigms that will fail in practice, to quite satisfactory efforts to provide basic or moderately advanced instruction. The author, distinguished in several fields of cardiology, goes to exceptional lengths to form an up-to-date pedagogic basis: more than one fifth of the book is devoted to a discussion of concepts, practical matters, and the range of normal electrocardiograms, and this is followed by concise presentations of sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, Bayes' . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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