Dr. Jones’s ECG Blog
Blog for advanced ECG interpretation
June 18, 2020
This ECG was chosen randomly from my ECG collection. Here is the infamous “Normal sinus rhythm; Normal ECG” that we see so frequently. Today, we are […]
May 1, 2020
Anyone who wishes to interpret ECGs at an advanced level must know some of the physiology and anatomy of the heart. This helps us to understand […]
January 10, 2020
The Hexaxial Reference Grid Using It to Decipher Complex ECGs This diagram incorporates all six of the limb Leads for the purpose of understanding the vectors […]
December 12, 2019
All introductory courses – written, live or on-line – teach you to READ an ECG. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that! It’s how we all got […]
July 8, 2019
What does concordance tell us about ventricular tachycardia? The term “concordance” has a number of uses in electrocardiography, but I want to discuss its meaning in […]
March 3, 2019
In Figure 1 above, the action potential of normal myocardium is represented by the solid lines and the action potential of the ischemic myocardial area is […]
February 12, 2019
If your experience was like mine, when you were first learning to read ECGs (not really at the level where you could actually interpret them yet), […]
January 30, 2019
If you are reading this monograph, it’s perhaps because you have had to manage a patient with a dangerously high potassium level – possibly on several […]
January 17, 2019
Of the six limb leads produced by the ECG machine (electrocardiograph), are you aware that only TWO of those leads are actually recorded from the patient? […]