Over the years the Electro Cardio Gram (ECG)
has been used by to make major clinical decisions with regard to
electric pacing the use of thrombolytic drugs in acute myocardial
infarction and the timing of surgery. In conjunction with a chest
X-ray and the echocardiogram it is a fundamental part of the
initial investigation of a patient with suspected heart disease.
These electrical squiggles have always been difficult for students
to understand. In part the problem has been that the formatting of
the ECG has only become standard in the last two decades. Some
important books have not provided the full twelve-lead ECG. On
occasion the interpretation of the ECG has been related to complex
explanations of the shapes of the electrical signals. For the
practising physician much of the interpretation is a matter of
pattern recognition this APK make it easier for Medical students
and Physician to understand and interpret ECG
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Clinical ECG Guide.
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