1. The document provides an overview of essential clinical ECG skills, including understanding what an ECG is, heart anatomy and electrophysiology, ECG waveform components, and how to interpret ECGs.
2. It reviews ECG basics like lead placements, normal sinus rhythm, abnormal rhythms, rates, axes, and chamber enlargements.
3. Guidelines are given for identifying ischemic patterns from ST segments, T waves, and Q waves that indicate myocardial ischemia, injury, and infarction.
3. True education is what remains
after one has forgotten
what one has learned
in school.
-Albert Einstein
4. STEPS !
• Part I :To know ECG
• What is ECG ?
• Anatomy of heart and (electro)physiology
• Anatomy of ECG
• Part II :To use ECG
• Leads placement positions
• Read ECG like a pro (?) : Step by step
• Ischemic pattern
• Need-to-know ECGs
5. TO KNOW ECG…
What is ECG ?
Anatomy of heart and (electro)physiology
Anatomy of ECG
6. WHAT IS ECG ?
• An electrocardiogram (ECG / EKG) is an electrical
recording of the heart and is used in the investigation of
heart disease.
• 1895 ;Willem Einthoven invented ECG.
• A representation of electrical events
in cardiac cycle.
• Each events has a distinctive waveform.
• Study ECG >> study shadow of heart.
Look from different aspects.
9. CONDUCTION PATHWAY
Depolarized at SA node
Internodal pathway to AV node
interatrial tract
to Lt. atrium
Bundle of His
Left and right
bundle branches
Purkinje fiber
to contractile cell
(~0.05 m/sec)
(~ 4 m/sec)
10. CONDUCTION PATHWAY
Depolarized at SA node
Internodal pathway to AV node
interatrial tract
to Lt. atrium
Bundle of His
right
bundle branches
Purkinje fiber
to contractile cell
Left
bundle branches
Purkinje f
to contra
Purkinje fiber
to contractile cell
Purkinje fiber
to contractile cell
Purkinje fiber
to contractile ce
Purkinje fiber
to contractile cell
Purkinje fibe
to contractil
Purkinje fibe
to contracti
Purkinje fiber
to contractile cell
Purkinje fiber
to contractile cell
Purkinje fiber
to contractile cell
26. ANATOMY OF ECG AND
CORRELATION
https://www.youtube.com/user/ECGTeacher
27. ANATOMY OF ECG
…THE PAPER
Basics
• ECG paper has many squares
• Big square = 5 small square
• Each small square = 1 mm in width and
height (1mm x 1 mm)
• Rate of paper
• 25 mm/sec
• So 0.04 sec/1 mm (small square)
• Or 0.2 sec/ 5 mm (large square)
• Electrode and machine record
• 1mV = 10 mm
• So 0.1 mV/1 mm (small square)
28. ANATOMY OF ECG
…ABOUT 12 LEADS
Electrodes ≠ leads ; basic 10 electrodes make 12 leads
3 types of leads
• Bipolar limb leads (frontal plane):
• Lead I: RA (-) to LA (+) (Right Left, or lateral)
• Lead II: RA (-) to LL (+) (Superior Inferior)
• Lead III: LA (-) to LL (+) (Superior Inferior)
• Augmented unipolar limb leads (frontal plane):
• Lead aVR: RA (+) to [LA & LL] (-) (Rightward)
• Lead aVL: LA (+) to [RA & LL] (-) (Leftward)
• Lead aVF: LL (+) to [RA & LA] (-) (Inferior)
• Unipolar (+) chest leads (horizontal plane):
• Leads V1, V2, V3: (Posterior Anterior)
• Leads V4, V5, V6:(Right Left, or lateral)
33. NORMAL ECG COMPLEX
PWave
- depolarization of the atria
- normal sinus rhythm: the P wave is upright in leads I, II, aVF,V4,V5, andV6 and
inverted in aVR
QRS Complex
- ventricular depolarization
V1,V2; Rt.Ventricle
V3,V4; septum (R wave = S wave ; transition point”)
If Rt.Ventricle enlargement;transition pointV4/V5 orV5/V6
V5,V6; Lt. ventricle
34. THE ‘PQRSTU’
QRS complex
QWave. The first negative deflection of the QRS complex
(not always present)
pathologic:the Q wave should be > 25% of the QRS complex
RWave: The first positive deflection
S Wave :The negative deflection following the R wave
35. THE ‘PQRSTU’
• TWave
- repolarization of the ventricles and follows the QRS complex
- normal : upright in leads I, II,V3,V4,V5, andV6 and inverted in
aVR
… AndWhere’s
atrial depolarization ???
36. THE ‘PQRSTU’
Intervals (PR, QRS, and QT intervals)
measured in the limb leads (ดู lead II ง่าย)
1. PR interval = 0.12–0.20 s (3-5 ช่องเล็ก)
2.QRS duration < 0.12 s (เล็กกว่า 3 ช่องเล็ก) ***
3. QT interval increases with decreasing heart rate,
usually < 0.44 s
* QT interval (not exceed one half of the RR
interval)
43. ELECTRODES PLACEMENT
POSITIONS
Midclavicular line
Midaxillary line
V1: 4 intercostal space to
right sternum,
V2: 4 intercostal space to
left sternum
V3: halfway betweenV2-V4,
V4: 5 intercostal space at
the midclavicle Line
V6: 5 intercostal space at
the madaxillary Line,
V5: halfway betweenV4-V6
44. READ ECG LIKE A PRO (?)
• Rhythm
• Rate
• Axis
• Chamber enlargement
• Myocardial ischemia and infarction
• Miscellaneous
• Drug effect
• Electrolyte imbalance
45. NORMAL SINUS RHYTHM
Rhythm
• ทุก QRS ตามหลัง P wave โดย QRS เป็น positive ใน II และเป็น negative ใน aVR
• regular PR and RR interval
• rate between 60 and 100 beats/min
46. ABNORMAL RHYTHM
• Varying rhythm
• Extra beats
and skip
• Heart block
• Total irregularity
• Basically regularity
• Regular irregularity
(Grouping beat)
Rhythm
47. VARYING RHYTHM
Normal Sinus Rhythm
Atrial Fibrillation
Rhythm
A Fib
Totally irregular
Can’t identify/
fibrillated p wave
51. Torsades de Pointes
Supraventricular tachycardia
Rhythm
SVT
Fast atrial and
ventricular rate
100-250
narrow QRS
Advanced life support!
(tachy, adenosine)
Torsades
Twist around point
PolymorphicVT
Advanced life support!
(tachy, MgSO4)
69. CHAMBER ENLARGEMENT
AND HYPERTROPHY
• Right atrium enlargement
• Peak of P wave > 2.5 mm
• Left atrium enlargement
• Width of P wave > 0.12 seconds
• Right ventricular hypertrophy
• R/S wave ratio in leadV1 > 1 + RAD
• Left ventricular hypertrophy
• S in leadV1 + R wave in leadV5 orV6 > 35 mm
Chamber
enlargement
70. CHAMBER ENLARGEMENT
AND HYPERTROPHY
• Check P wave for atrial enlargement
• Check R wave in leadV1 for RV hypertrophy
(RAD)
• Check S wave in leadV1 and R wave in lead
V5, 6 for LV hypertrophy
Chamber
enlargement
84. • Flattening
• ST depress
– Plain ST depress (Horizontal)
– Non plain ST depress
• Downslope pattern : dig intox
• Reverse correct check mark : strain pattern
ABNORMAL ST SEGMENT
(ST DEPRESSION)
Normal Flattening
ST segment
Horizontal
ST depress
Downsloping
ST segment
Ischemic pattern
93. ST ELEVATE IN LV ANEURYSM
• QS pattern
• ST elevated
• T wave inversion
Ischemic pattern
94. ST ELEVATE IN EARLY REPOLARIZATION
• Common in M>FM
• Common in black
• Begins elevated J point and
usually concave form,
commonly associated with
notching of the
downstroke of the QRS
complex and can reach 500
microvolte in amplitude
Ischemic pattern
105. RBBB
Right bundle branch block manifest by prominent S wave in leads I, aVl , and
the left ventricular precordial leads and an rsR pattern in lead V1 . The left
anterior fascicular block is indicated by the marked left-axis deviation in the
frontal leads.
Other
116. COR PULMONALE (E.G. PE)
Other
• Abnormal wave - S in lead I - Q กว้างกว่า 1.5ช่อง lead III
- invertedT in lead III
117. BRUGADA SIGN
Other
• Coved ST segment elevation >2mm in >1 ofV1-V3 followed by a negativeT wave
• Abnormal cardiac Na+ channel
• Sudden death สัมพันธ์กับโรคไหลตาย
118. WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE
Other
• Delta wave ; slurring slow rise of
initial portion of the QRS
• Syndrome is a combination of
the presence of a congenital
accessory pathway and
episodes of tachyarrhythmia.
• Bundle of Kent