Identifying an acute myocardial infarction on the 12-lead ECG is the most important thing you can learn in ECG interpretation. Time is muscle when treating heart attacks. Missing a ST segment ...

An electrocardiogram is a picture of the electrical conduction of the heart ... basing ECG interpretation on pattern recognition alone is often not sufficient. The standard ECG has 12 leads.

The resting electrocardiogram (ECG) furnishes essential information for the diagnosis, management, and prognostic evaluation of patients with congestive heart ... of all 12 leads, or the 6 limb ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the 12-lead ECG could be substituted by ECG sets with a limited number of leads. Materials and methods: The performance of three ECG systems (ie ...