Welcome to this interactive ECG course.

Although it is one of the oldest paraclinic exams, dating back to the late 19th century, the ECG is still of crucial clinical use. This examination often still poses problems of interpretation to the medical practitioner.

This course aims to help the student, the practicing physician and even the trained cardiologist to improve his knowledge in electrocardiography. It consists of 250 traces of varying complexity with a description of each one by experts. This allows the reader to compare his analysis with that of the experts. In addition, the areas of interest of the ECG can be activated to be clearly highlighted.

We hope that these plots will be useful to readers and will improve their knowledge.

The ECGs are available sorted by keywords and categories.

ECG 080

Description

Basic rhythm

Narrow QRS complex tachycardia at 120 bpm.

P wave

Visible between 2 QRS complexes, positive in I, II and aVF and biphasic to negative in III.

PR interval

RP' interval is greater than P'R interval.

QRS

Normal, axis -10°.

ST segment

Isoelectric.

T waves

Normal.

QT interval

Normal.

Zones

Diagnostic

Right atrial tachycardia.

Comments

The ratio RP':P'R greater than 1 allows us to give this diagnosis. The P' waves which are difficult to identify, positive in most of the frontal leads and negative in V1, indicate that the origin of the tachycardia is in the right atrium. The QS waves in III and aVF have a positional origin or correspond to the scar from a previous infarction.

Keywords

Reading level

2 / 3

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