{"id":328,"date":"2013-01-24T22:13:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T04:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2018-05-31T22:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T03:01:14","slug":"ecg-cheat-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"ECG Cheat Sheet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-415\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg\" alt=\"ECG Top\" width=\"700\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The beginnings of this cheat sheet began when I was in medical school, when I read a book my resident senior&nbsp;lent me, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ECG made simple<\/span>. As an academic teaching attending now, I am still teaching EKGs through this one-page cheat sheet! See my other posts for more EKG tips and resources.<\/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><strong>ECG rapid view:<\/strong> It is organized roughly how one would typically read an ECG.&nbsp;EKG cheat sheet pdf hits the major points in the order that you might present to another doctor:\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>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 have 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<li>Futura typeface for style and readability and because Wes Anderson is partial to it<\/li>\n<li>Half-fold design to fit a doctor&#8217;s white coat<\/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 beginnings of this cheat sheet began when I was in medical school, when I read a book my resident senior&nbsp;lent me, ECG made simple. As an academic teaching attending now, I am still teaching EKGs through this one-page cheat sheet! See my other posts for more EKG tips and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28,31],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verbal","tag-health-care","tag-medical-school","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg",700,225,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2-300x96.jpg",300,96,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg",660,212,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg",660,212,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg",700,225,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg",700,225,false],"slider-thumb":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg",700,225,false],"blog-thumb":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg",700,225,false],"teaser-thumb":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2-332x205.jpg",332,205,true],"gallery-1-thumb":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2-432x225.jpg",432,225,true],"gallery-2-thumb":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2-268x225.jpg",268,225,true],"gallery-3-thumb":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2-268x164.jpg",268,164,true],"image-thumb":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg",700,225,false],"video-thumb":["http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ecgtop2.jpg",700,225,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Del Rosario Henry","author_link":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":17,"uagb_excerpt":"The beginnings of this cheat sheet began when I was in medical school, when I read a book my resident senior&nbsp;lent me, &#8230;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}