Free Basic Tutorials for EKG interpretations.

Although, I am not a cardiologist or an electrophysiologist (EP), but I've been watching and interpreting patients heart rhythm daily at work. This will help you in your nursing program for cardiac rhythm interpretations - ECG or EKG.

Let's start:

First we have to know the anatomy of the heart. Once you know them.., it's a piece of a pie.

This is called a cardiac cycle. Every beat of your heart is forming a wave like this. It's the electrical conduction of the heart.

If your heart has no problem. The rhythm is likely this... It's called Normal Sinus Rhythm.

Normal Sinus Rhythm is always regular.If you know this as a baseline you can tell that the rest of the rhythm is abnormal. 

Next rhythm and most common arrhythmia is Atrial Fibrillation also known as A-Fib. A-Fib is more likely like this...remember A-Fib is always irregular and has no P waves. This means that the problem originates in atrium. 

Will continue...