Do you know anything about the heart's electrical activity? Or a cardiac rhythm and the detection of myocardial ischemia? Here is where an ECG comes in. It helps you identify other types of cardiac ...

An electrocardiogram is a picture of the electrical conduction of the heart. By examining changes from normal on the ECG, clinicians can identify a multitude of cardiac disease processes. There are ...

The Q wave is the first downward deflection after the P wave and the first element in the QRS complex. When the first deflection of the QRS complex is upright, then no Q wave is present. The normal ...

Abstract: Describes an approach to an intelligent tutorial system called CARDIOLOG, specially developed to help in teaching electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation to medical students. Although the ...

Editor’s note: The EKG Detective will be a monthly column dedicated to illustrating the benefits of utilizing deductive logic as a method for interpreting ECG tracings. The column will highlight and ...

Editor’s note: The EKG Detective will be a monthly column dedicated to illustrating the benefits of utilizing deductive logic as a method for interpreting ECG tracings. The column will highlight and ...