How to Read an Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG)

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Outstanding. I sat through a two hour lecture and I was more confused than when I came in. This is straight to the point and very clear. Thanks.

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[@InteractiveBiology]

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[@zarzamonserrat]

You are great! You're explanation made my understandings of the waves much more easier. Thank you!

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[@InteractiveBiology]

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Amazing lecture about ECG Thank you 💕 for sharing

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I'm currently in pharmacy school and every one of your heart videos has helped me more than the lectures of my professors. thanks!

[@elenaescobal7448]

I'm a registered nurse and I just found this app called ACLSMED super helpful!! It has all ecg rhythms, clinical significance, causes, treatments, etc. A must have for healthcare professionals and medical and nursing students!!! It is available in androids and iphone. Just my two cents! :)

[@InteractiveBiology]

@petercourt I'm not sure of the exact range but it should start within a few milliseconds. However, the contraction can last up to as much as 300 milliseconds. Check out episode 47 for info on the actual contraction.

[@robinanderson7250]

Thank you. You made that so easy to understand. I'm in nursing school and was not able to grab the concept until.

[@InteractiveBiology]

@afritschka You are very much welcome. Glad to know that the videos are helping you understand better. Good stuff! Stay tuned for more :)

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[@InteractiveBiology]

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[@InteractiveBiology]

@pirateXhunterXzoro Excellent question. That has to do with the fact that you aren't measuring the depolarization and repolarization directly on the heart. You are placing positive and negative electrodes on different parts of the body (i.e. wrists and ankles) and measuring the potential differences. These result from what happens in the heart, but there's more involved in that. I can't explain every nuance, but that's the overall reason from my understanding.

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this is incredible. i have a test paper at medicine tomorrow and this video made the thing a lot easier

[@InteractiveBiology]

@akshalabi You're welcome. Glad to know this helped. Stay tuned! We have more Biology videos coming very soon...

[@essamhaitham]

the u wave is due to contraction of the papillary muscle .. small,positive, and rare wave and the atria Re-polarization is masked by the stronger QRS complex ( ventricles depolarization ) because they happen at the same time ;) ..hoped i helped

[@mariarak8328]

Thank you simple video to give you a simple understanding.Many videos are way too complex and don't take into account that some people have no prior knowledge.Keep up the great work :)

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Thank you for your video! I'm a nursing student and appreciate your eagerness to share your knowledge.

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[@akshalabi]

thank you ... i have been having problems with ECG but now i get it perfectly ..thanks to you

[@PrettyHair09]

Is there a video that show when SA node and AV node fire, when atria relax, when the ventricle relax, when valves open and close, and the points where ventricle pressure and volume is high or low? I really need help with that.

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I love this guy's videos. They help me a lot when I study for my A&P exams.

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[@InteractiveBiology]

Love you too 😃

[@MitchC-vr8nw]

This was well made and easy to understand!

[@pirateXhunterXzoro]

For the P and QRS, why does the line go back down when they're still depolarized? Why does the T wave line go up during repolarization? And why does the Q and S go down before spiking up? Thanks a lot

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[@mohammedrabeeh796]

Simple and efficient. Gave me a pace to start referring more about it. thank you

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[@steveryan1131]

Well done. Easy to follow even for patients.

[@DocAvicenna81]

Thank You. This explanation is fantastic. Do you mind if I use this video to show patients in my Cardiology clinic? I would greatly appreciate it. Please advise. Thank You in advance.

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I would to say thanks .You been helping me out so much is my classes.keep up the good work lol

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Flawless explanation, gave your like.

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I love these videos! Thank you so much for taking your time to teach. They are so helpful and explain things that the instructors are not in class!

[@innocentloyal]

Could you do a video on what an ekg look like when the leads are placed on backward.

[@olimercer835]

fantastic, you really help with your teaching style and visual bits :)

[@louismushaike620]

Thanx.....can you explain how does an electrocardiograph rise from a two cell model

[@OJASVIVYAS]

thank you so much...sir your video was a grt help..i m student of first year medicine..this was indeed superub..plzz continue the good work..looking forward to see more videos frm you

[@GaryWCassibry]

Awesome Video! Thank You! To all the haters, you cant learn everything in one video, you have to build off of each video!

[@twothirdsostrich]

Quick, simple, and easy to understand. Thanks. :)

[@KanhaiyaB81]

Remember AVDA A- Atrial systole (depolarisation of atria/contraction of atria/P) V-Ventricular Systole (depolarisation of the ventricles/contraction of the ventricles/P) D-Diastole (repolarisation of the ventricles/relaxation of both atria and venticles/QRS complex) A-- Atrial systole (depolarisation of atria/contraction of atria/P)-ommiting U Correct me if I'm wrong or thumbs me up for others to see.

[@adarshbharati9999]

What is p at the end of each statement.

[@javeriyaneha7893]

As u mentioned that means both atria and ventricles contracts at the same time Which is not possible(except in diseased condition)....

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You help me so much in my Anatomy & Physiology studies! Thank you so much, i really mean it!

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you and me both

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Your accent is ace! Thank you very much for this, helped sooooo much with revising.

[@havingfun122]

thanks interactivebiology!.. the place where I live.. Doctors (most of them - actually every doctor I have met) do get offended if I even ask them what they are doing to combat a problem based on these readings..

[@genius4themostpart]

why is the T wave "positive"? I understand, and it makes sense that the depolarization in the atriums and the ventricles have that effect on the EKG but not why the T wave is positive. Thank you for great videos, I just found your channel and i love it!

[@yourvegancook]

I enjoyed #048 how to read ECG. But could you do another video in more detail. I like how you teach and I would like to become better at reading the ECG. Maybe like a video for 10mins or so all about ECG/EKG..thank you again for all your videos!!

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[@Unbeatable1912]

One word. Incredible.

[@shashimoghe3920]

Sir very well explained the topic thanks and good wishes

[@Honking_Goose]

It can be recognised not by using conventional ECGs but during some specialised electro physiology tests when both the atrial and ventricular waves are separated

[@tedp831]

I have hard time learning to figure out the heart rate by the rule of 300 of ECG , is there anyway you upload video show me the easy way to learn.

[@raziagloop95]

Omg you just made it seem so simple than what my biology book was blabbering on about.

[@carolinagondra1338]

Very easy to understand video. Thanks

[@akray1018]

That the direction of electrical depolarization is retrograde to what it normal is. When seen in lead 2, it implies the vector is moving away from Lead 2 (when you think of Einthoven's triangle)

[@havingfun122]

awesome! wish Doctors here were like you. :) most of them here get offended if I even ask them what they understood and what they think they will do to combat the problem. :)

[@ginarimbey8203]

you are a great teacher! I can't wait to take my test in school. thank you

[@shakeem84]

Awesome video!! Great way of breaking down the information it really helps.

[@rehamalhussain8150]

Thanks from saudi arabia 👏🏻

[@SCSUguy85]

Love this thanks for posting the video. I'm going into emergency medicine and this helps me understand EKG PQRST waves a lot better then what I learned in class!

[@thordurinn]

exactly the information I needed. Thank you for making these awesome videos.

[@InteractiveBiology]

@maihot You are very much welcome!

[@nadia41683]

Thank you so much! This video was great and supper easy to understand ;my book was confusing me.

[@pattaratidaa12]

so where's the repolarization of the atria? does it appear on the ECG?

[@InteractiveBiology]

@VidUploDer You're welcome! Stay tuned for more Biology videos coming very soon!

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Thank you very much for doing these videos. They are helping me get through my a&p classes (:

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[@HIFAVOR509]

I love your videos Leslie! please, keep them coming. Thank you from Miami :)

[@austinguria5349]

Wow, explained very well but you didn't mention anything about the repolarization of the atria! Which segment of the graph represented it ?

[@swalser2332]

Thank You so much....I have read and reread this chapter. You made it make sense.

[@aswadflute]

Really helpful video and very easy to understand. Thank you.

[@tashafoy5578]

Thank you! Fantastic teaching - clear and to the point.

[@rameshlg4439]

Thanks for giving me 5 marks on my examination 😁😁

[@MissAwesome258]

what does it mean when the P wave is inverted?

[@evilmask972]

Great video! You just didn't explain that the QRS complex mask the repolarisation of the atrium (we can see on the edge of the QRS complex that the curve goes down a little) Thanks a lot for your videos anyway! It helped me a lot! :)

[@plum3085]

What about the p-q wave and the s-t wave?

[@TheJVelez]

THANKS!!!!!!! Just had a BREAKTHROUGH!!!!!

[@InteractiveBiology]

@rotorway133 I wouldn't use my video for self-diagnosis ;) but I hope that all goes well with the results.

[@PhilipSnyder-w2b]

Thank you. Excellent presentation.

[@InteractiveBiology]

You are very much welcome @@user-wj7pw9ib9u. Glad you got value from it. Make sure to subscribe to the channel, because I have a lot more content like this coming to help you understand how the human body works 👍🏽.

[@snehadasgupta338]

can u explain why the Q and S waves have a peak downwards??

[@4747435]

Good video.. that would also be nice to have the links for other related videos because I cannot find the other episodes mentioned

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thank you for this video. this will help my wife in getting her ACLS cert.

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[@fatimakhalid9947]

excellent!!!! i hd alot a problems regrading Ecg reading!!! but thanks to this video :)

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i think i love you! you are my hero! :) please keep the videos coming!!!

[@NeonsStyleHD]

What does an Inverted T wave mean? I had that once.

[@nissansentraglx]

am looking to be trained as an ekg tech. this helped.

[@afritschka]

Hi Leslie, Thank you so much for these excellent videos - they are incredibly helpful for brushing up on concepts that I hadn't completely grasped.

[@azmatyousafani3968]

Your videos are quite helpful. Can you please explain the terms depolarization and repolarization in simple words?

[@Truthbearer1]

You sound Trini....good explanation! Thanks so much :)

[@ali210a]

Thanks from Bahrain

[@InteractiveBiology]

You're welcome from Michigan :)

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[@ghazi748]

what do we exactly mean by the atria *depolarizes*?

[@hannasspawnofsatan]

This is fantastic!!! I am learning so much

[@petercourt]

Thanks for this. I was wondering, how long after depolarisation does contraction occur?

[@scottwilly86]

You should state atria repolarization during the QRS complex to avoid confusion.

[@Olorin89]

it occours during QRS complex right?

[@Wake06Forest]

+Olorin i believe so. the ventricles are a bigger muscle so ventricular repolarization masks it on the EKG

[@scottwilly86]

Olorin That's correct. As the ventricles depolarize, the atria experience repolarization but it is masked by the much larger QRS complex. You can see the atrial repolariaztion, or Ta wave, under certain conditions such as a third degree AV block. In this case, the wave of depolarization initiated from the atria never reaches the ventricles and you can eventually see the Ta wave by itself.

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Scott Wilson

[@robedobe4894]

Scott Wilson yes ! it made me so confused and it’s not that easy to go back

[@joyryte2167]

At what moment the repolarization of atria happen?

[@shamathanchee]

Thank you soo much sir for more easier vdo uploaded

[@klatif09]

Thank you so much for these videos, they are such a huge help!

[@SiriSadhanaSingh108]

Righteous video... well explained :)