I recently started a rotation in cardiology. It has been nearly 2 years since I have worked on a heart service and I was looking for a quick refresher on EKGs. Luckily, I found a great powerpoint review on the Standford website. There are only 20 or so slides and they cover major topics such as: review of heart conduction system, EKG lead placement, determining the heart rate, and determining the QRS axis. They review both the ‘quadrant’ approach to axis determination and the ‘equiphasic’ approach. If you are going to be starting a rotation in cardiology or if you just want to refresh yourself on EKG basics, I suggest you take a look.
You can click the link below to download the PowerPoint directly from this website or you can go to the Stanford website listed below.
http://medresidents.stanford.
My name is Andrew and I am a first year resident training to be an ophthalmologist. I created ShortWhiteCoats to provide medical students, residents, and the public with all the information I spent so many hours looking for during medical school.
