Book excerpt: Fast and Easy ECGs: A Self-Paced Learning Program is a first edition product for McGraw-Hill Higher Education. ECG interpretation is a difficult skill to master and often students must learn and practice it on their own time. Fast and Easy ECG is designed to bring the classroom to the student through the use of sidebar instructor comments, questions, and clinical tidbits. Concepts are learned through a philosophy of repetition, anatomical understanding of dysrhythmias and practice. The companion DVD brings an ECG instructor (co-author Dr. Keith Wesley) to the reader by providing lectures of important concepts and skills. Fast and Easy ECGs covers the 5-step process for basic ECG interpretation and introduces the reader to concepts in 12-lead ECG interpretation.