Q: Even though my doctor told me I am pretty healthy, she ordered an electrocardiogram (ECG) to be done right in her office. Besides a heart attack, what else can ECGs show? A: Cardiac (heart) cells ...

Not all ECG tracings are clear cut and textbook quality. This ECG is a bit vague in a couple ways. There is some baseline artifact making it difficult to see if there is truly P wave activity. There ...

Think of the stereotypical representations of medicine, as they might appear on a television show: the crisp white coat, of course, and the stethoscope dangling at the ready. Syringes and intravenous ...

Enlarge Source: Learn the Heart Which of the following does the above ECG represent? The ECG shows sinus tachycardia at about 110 beats per minute with a prolonged PR of 0.22 seconds: first-degree ...

Apple caused quite a stir in 2018 when it unveiled electrocardiogram (ECG) on the Apple Watch 4, with some critics pointing out that it wasn't much different from what AliveCor had been doing for ...

Since the Apple Watch added the ECG app with the Series 4, numerous stories have surfaced about how the app has contributed to saving people’s lives. Now, a new article from the European Heart Journal ...

The resting electrocardiogram (ECG) furnishes essential information for the diagnosis, management, and prognostic evaluation of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Almost any ECG diagnostic ...

Heart failure affects about 2% to 3% of people globally—including up to 9% of those over 60—and about 6.5 million Americans. For a person with this chronic, progressive condition, the heart isn’t able ...

The Apple Watch’s ECG feature can officially only indicate atrial fibrillation, but an anesthesiologist working at a California hospital says that it picked up on a critical heart disease so serious ...

“So when did you have this heart attack?” I asked as I examined my patient’s EKG. I knew by the look on her face that the next words out of her mouth were going to be, “what heart attack?” Oh my. Was ...