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ECG Anatomy the heart, the leads and the tracing

Dr Dinesh Raja Palanisamy · cardiorender.com

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Anatomical sources. Anatomy slides summarise Mori S, Shivkumar K. Atlas of Cardiac Anatomy, Cardiotext Publishing, 2022 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), in the authors' own words. Anatomical orientation and nomenclature also follow McAlpine WA. Heart and Coronary Arteries: An Anatomical Atlas for Clinical Diagnosis, Radiological Investigation, and Surgical Treatment, Springer-Verlag, 1975. Heart and lead mesh from the supplied 12-lead ECG model.
For education and training only. Not a diagnostic or clinical decision tool.

Standard paper: one small square is 40 ms and 0.1 mV. Every complex is computed live from the moving heart vector projected onto each lead's axis as measured from this mesh.