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10 Steps to Learn ECG Interpretation

Learning the art of ECG interpretation requires intellect, commitment, effort and perhaps most importantly...an organized approach. I personally have spent thousands of hours (yes thousands) looking at 12-lead ECG tracings, studying ECGs for the cardiology boards, interpreting ECGs for direct patient care and developing the ECG tutorials and quizzes of LearnTheHeart.com.

I assume that most of you reading this blog do not have that much time...so let me share with you what I have discovered in my years teaching ECGs to make the process more simple and perhaps even enjoyable.

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Lumify Mobile Ultrasound Imaging

With Lumify, high-quality ultrasound is available almost anywhere. Just subscribe, download the Lumify app, plug in the transducer, and you're set. Meet patients at the point-of-care, get a faster diagnosis, and deliver care whenever it's needed.

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Heart Gingerbread

Very innovative ECG inspired heart cookies

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Point-of-Care Asthma and Tuberculosis Diagnostics

A device to mix liquids utilizing ultrasonics is the first and most difficult component in a miniaturized system for low-cost analysis of sputum from patients with pulmonary diseases such as tuberculosis and asthma. The device, developed by engineers at Penn State in collaboration with researchers at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Washington University School of Medicine, will benefit patients in the U.S., where 12 percent of the population, or around 19 million people, have asthma, and in undeveloped regions where TB is still a widespread and often deadly contagion.

Stewart J. Levine, a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Laboratory of Asthma and Lung Inflammation in the Division of Intramural Research at NHLBI, said “This on-chip sputum liquefier is a significant advance regarding our goal of developing a point-of-care diagnostic device that will determine the type of inflammation present in the lungs of asthmatics. This will allow health care providers to individualize asthma treatments for each patient and advance the goal of bringing precision medicine into clinical practice.”

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On-Chip Processor the First Step in Point-of-Care Asthma and Tuberculosis Diagnostics

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ECG Interpretation Tutorials

ECG Interpretation Training and Reference Guides provide basic lessons for ECG analysis as well as a quick reference guide for over 40 types of ECG tracings. The arrhythmia drills and quizzes allow you to practice ECG interpretation.

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ECG chest leads

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Vintage ECG registration

Very accurate registration

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Handheld ECG Monitor

Easy ECG monitor is a personal single lead electrocardiographic monitor that records user's cardiac functions and displays the data in a clear and precise waveform for daily health check. This device is intended for self-testing by adult users who might experience transient symptoms that may suggest cardiac conduction abnormity or by adult users whenever they want to have routine checks. Detecting and managing irregularities in the heart at an early stage is crucial to preventing worsening of heart diseases.

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Portable Handheld ECG EKG Monitors

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Awesome anatomic costume

Music from the heart

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The Electrical Conduction System of the Heart Simplified

Every healthy heart comes fitted with its very own pacemaker, a cluster of cells called the Sino Atrial Node (SA Node). This natural pacemaker lets of an electric charge intermittently and when it does that initiates a heart beat! If your heart rate is 60bpm you can be sure this little bigger is going off every second! It can be found in the top left of the heart as you look at it (The Right Atrium) -----> When the SA Node fires it initiates a chain of events. Picture one domino, in front of it two dominoes, in front of those 3 dominoes and so on and so forth. The SA Node is pushing over the first 'domino' and the knock on effect causes all the cells to contract in order. The main contraction cells in your heart are all like dominoes lined up next to each other. If you push one then that will star a chain event (Contraction)

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How the Heart Beats - The Hearts Electrical Conduction System Simplified

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Cardiology Christmas Ornament

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Anatomic Sand Sculpture

Sand lungs - Amazing piece of art and science

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Remote ECG interpretation

Smartphone-connected ECG maker AliveCor has added a telemedicine service to its product. AliveCor AliveInsights will allow patients to send their recorded ECG readings to remote cardiac technicians or cardiologists for interpretation at any time, for a fee.

AliveCor has been on the leading edge of consumer ECG devices that don’t require wires or electrodes. The device’s ECG sensor is built into an iPhone case, or, for the company’s recently launched Android device, the form factor a pocket-sized wireless-enabled sensor that attaches to the back of a smartphone. 

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Remote ECG interpretation 

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ECG tattoo

An interesting case in your hand

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Routine EKG finding could signal serious heart problem

A common test that records the heart's electrical activity could predict potentially serious cardiovascular illness, according to a UC San Francisco-led study.
A cardiac condition called left anterior fascicular block (LAFB), in which scarring occurs in a section of the left ventricle, may not be as benign as currently thought and could increase the likelihood of heart failure, sudden cardiac death or atrial fibrillation.

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Routine EKG finding could signal serious heart problem

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Normal Sinus Rhythm With Aberrantly-Conducted PACs

This is a normal 12-Lead ECG with two PACs that are aberrantly conducted in a right bundle branch block pattern. (Sixth and ninth beats). In the PACs, the QRS is slightly wider than the normal beats.

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Normal Sinus Rhythm With Aberrantly-Conducted PACs | ECG Guru - Instructor Resources

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The Six-Step Method for 12-Lead ECG Interpretation

The Six-Step Method” (which actually has seven steps).

It goes like this:

1.) Rate and rhythm
2.) Axis determination
3.) QRS duration (Intervals)
4.) Morphology
5.) STE-mimics
6.) Ischemia, Injury, Infarct

“Step 7″ is a rule I started throwing in to remind students that one should always interpret an ECG (or any other diagnostic test) in light of the history and clinical presentation.

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The Six-Step Method for 12-Lead ECG Interpretation

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