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ECG Practice Strips: Learn to Interpret Cardiac Tracings Easily

Improve your ECG interpretation skills with practice strips covering various rhythms and abnormalities. Understand rates, rhythms, PR duration, QRS width, and more. Test your knowledge and enhance your proficiency in identifying cardiac patterns.

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ECG Practice Strips: Learn to Interpret Cardiac Tracings Easily

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  1. PCP IV ECG practice strips v2 2014

  2. Remember the steps • Rate • Rhythm • PR duration • QRS width • P for every QRS? • On the next slide you will a strip and then after that the above findings. When you have an answer click the mouse and the answer appears.

  3. #1 6 second strip

  4. #1 • Rate 60 • Rhythm Regular • PR duration < 5 small boxes • QRS width < 3 small boxes • P for every QRS? Yes – 1:1 • Normal Sinus Rhythm (ignore what you think is ST elevation in Lead II)

  5. #2 6 second strip

  6. #2 • Rate 40 • Rhythm Regular • PR duration NONE • QRS width > 3 small boxes • P for every QRS? NONE • Idioventricular rhythm

  7. #3 6 second strip

  8. #3 • Rate 80 • Rhythm Regular • PR duration < 5 small boxes • QRS width > 3 small boxes • P for every QRS? Yes – 1:1 NOTE - Unusual spike before every P wave and every QRS complex • Pacemaker – AV sequential (2 pacer spikes each time)

  9. #4 6 second strip

  10. #4 • Rate 110 • Rhythm Irregularly irregular • PR duration None • QRS width < 3 small boxes • P for every QRS? No P waves • Atrial fibrillation

  11. #5 6 second strip

  12. #5 • Rate 50 • Rhythm Regular • PR duration When conducted < 5 small boxes. Many not conducted • QRS width < 3 small boxes • P for every QRS? Yes – 2:1 only every other P wave conducted • 2nd degree block type 2

  13. #6 6 second strip

  14. #6 • Rate 60 • Rhythm Irregular • PR duration constantly changing • QRS width < 3 small boxes • P for every QRS? Most conducted, some not. • 2nd degree block type 1

  15. #7 6 second strip

  16. #7 • Rate 70 • Rhythm Irregular • PR duration < 5 small boxes • QRS width < 3 small boxes • P for every QRS? Yes – 1:1 • Normal Sinus Rhythm with a pause (not arrest as the rhythm resumes shortly)

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