What's on the web: How to read electrocardiograms
BMJ 2007; 335 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0712469b (Published 01 December 2007) Cite this as: BMJ 2007;335:0712469b- David Holt, fourth year medical student1
- 1University of Toronto, Canada
The worldwide web hosts a huge variety of sites that focus on how to interpret electrocardiograms (ECGs) in a step by step manner, as well as in the context of clinical scenarios. I found the sites given here extremely useful for dealing with patients with real electrocardiograms on the wards.
I like a more wordy and fairly comprehensive resource that goes through the process of reading an electrocardiogram one step at a time. The ER Club and EKG Interpretation, found at http://students.med.nyu.edu/erclub/ekghome.html, has a very easy to read writing style, and the author (Henry Feldman) chooses to insert the relevant basic physics under the appropriate interpretation heading. …
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