{"id":1160,"date":"2016-07-18T14:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T19:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2018-05-27T10:21:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:21:03","slug":"new-ecg-cheat-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"New ECG Cheat Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgtopnew1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"ecgtopnew1\" width=\"660\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgtopnew1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgtopnew1-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgtopnew1-768x510.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgtopnew1-700x465.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgtopnew1.jpg 1458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The nature of&nbsp;residency&nbsp;is looking&nbsp;up the same information again and again until it sticks in your head. Reading ECGs takes practice and one needs to develop a systematic way to read them. As a senior resident now, I find it really fun&nbsp;teaching interns ECGs!&nbsp;So I&nbsp;compiled many of the resources I&#8217;ve read about ECGs into a simple one-page rapid interpretation pdf!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ECGcheatsheet52.pdf\">Download the one-page rapid interpretation ECG cheat sheet v5.2 here (last update 5\/2018).<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ECGcheatsheet52.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1167 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgcheat5thumbnail-300x231.png\" alt=\"ecgcheat5thumbnail\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgcheat5thumbnail-300x231.png 300w, http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgcheat5thumbnail-768x591.png 768w, http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgcheat5thumbnail-1024x788.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgcheat5thumbnail-700x538.png 700w, http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecgcheat5thumbnail.png 1641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Features\/Notes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is organized roughly how one would typically read an ECG.&nbsp;<strong>EKG cheat sheet pdf<\/strong> hits the major points in the order that you might present to an attending:\n<ul>\n<li>Rate<\/li>\n<li>Rhythm<\/li>\n<li>Axis deviation<\/li>\n<li>Hypertrophy (atrial, ventricle)<\/li>\n<li>Intervals (PR, QRS, QT), segments<\/li>\n<li>Myocardial ischemia\/infarction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Futura typeface<\/strong> for style and readability and because Wes Anderson is partial to it<\/li>\n<li><strong>Half-fold design<\/strong> to fit a doctor&#8217;s white coat<\/li>\n<li>Many common things I look up are included (ie. interval lengths, QT lengths)<\/li>\n<li>In particular, I found many people confused about the criteria for diagnosing&nbsp;ischemia and infarction, Q waves, and T wave inversions. So I defined&nbsp;those and gave examples.<\/li>\n<li>Of note, many resources claim different definitions\/criteria to diagnose&nbsp;certain parts of the ECG (ie. LVH). I chose what appeared to be the most common and the easiest for myself to remember.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Last updates:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>7\/3\/2015: Added QTc prolongation lengths for males and females, changed some letter casing<\/li>\n<li>9\/23\/2015: Added the definitions for STEMI and NSTEMI.<\/li>\n<li>7\/18\/2016: Rearranged sections. Added R wave. Added RBB. Added sources.<\/li>\n<li>5\/24\/2018: Updated QTc intervals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sources:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ECG tutorials on UpToDate (Basic principles of ECG analysis, Myocardial ischemia and infarction)<\/li>\n<li>Making Sense of the ECG by Houghton<\/li>\n<li>Pocket Medicine by Sabatine<\/li>\n<li>Third Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction by Thygesen et al<\/li>\n<li>lifeinthefastlane.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Old versions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ECGcheatsheet5.pdf\">Old version v5.0 here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AWESOME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nature of&nbsp;residency&nbsp;is looking&nbsp;up the same information again and again until it sticks in your head. Reading ECGs takes practice and one needs to develop a systematic way to read them. 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