EKG Practice Strips

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EKG Training Modules 2022

Our new EKG modules provide in-depth training in EKG interpretation basics, rhythm analysis and abnormality recognition. Modules include lessons, interactive exercises and a course quiz.

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EKG Abnormality Examples

Our EKG Examples provides information on reading EKG strips with over forty different abnormal EKG examples. For each arrhythmia, there are EKG strip examples and descriptive text. We also provide an annotated tracing with a summary of the key features and values.

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Authors and Sources for our EKG Practice Drills

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Sources

  • Electrocardiography for Healthcare Professionals, 6th Edition Kathryn Booth and Thomas O'Brien
    ISBN10: 1265013470, ISBN13: 9781265013479
    McGraw Hill, 2023
  • Rapid Interpretation of EKG's, Sixth Edition
    Dale Dublin
    Cover Publishing Company
  • EKG Reference Guide
    EKG.Academy
  • 12 Lead EKG for Nurses: Simple Steps to Interpret Rhythms, Arrhythmias, Blocks, Hypertrophy, Infarcts, & Cardiac Drugs
    Aaron Reed
    Create Space Independent Publishing
  • Heart Sounds and Murmurs: A Practical Guide with Audio CD-ROM 3rd Edition
    Elsevier-Health Sciences Division
    Barbara A. Erickson, PhD, RN, CCRN
  • The Virtual Cardiac Patient: A Multimedia Guide to Heart Sounds, Murmurs, EKG Jonathan Keroes, David Lieberman
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkin)
    ISBN-10: 0781784425; ISBN-13: 978-0781784429
  • Project Semilla, UCLA Emergency Medicine, EKG Training Breena R. Taira, MD, MPH
  • ECG Reference Guide
    PracticalClinicalSkills.com

ExplanationRate: The underlying rate
Rhythm: Irregular
P Wave:Absent
PR Interval: Not measurable
QRS: Wide (> 0.10 sec), bizarre appearance
An impulse causes an early cardiac complex which disrupts the underlying rhythm. The locus of stimulation being different, results in a change in the morphology of the cardiac complex. Note the absence of P wave and the wide, bizarre QRS complex. PVC’s can occur occasionally or frequently. PVC’s can be observed with or without a pattern
Premature ventricular contraction couplets are extra, abnormal heartbeats that originating the Purkinje fibers of the ventricles. The PVC occur in pairs. Patients may feel a PVC as a skipped beat or palpitation. Single beat premature ventricular contractions are very common and can often be asymptomatic in healthy patients. PVCs are also called premature ventricular complexes. Premature ventricular contraction (PVCs) are extra, abnormal heartbeats that originating the Purkinje fibers of the ventricles. Patients may feel a PVC as a skipped beat or palpitation. Single beat premature ventricular contractions are very common and can often be asymptomatic in healthy patients. PVCs are also called premature ventricular complexes.
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