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Introduction to Clinical Electrocardiography

Gari Clifford, PhDAndrew Reisner, MDRoger Mark, MD PhD

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Electrocardiography

The heart is an electrical organ, and its activity can be measured non-invasively

Wealth of information related to: The electrical patterns proper The geometry of the heart tissue The metabolic state of the heart

Standard tool used in a wide-range of medical evaluations

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A heart• Blood circulates, passing near every cell in the body, driven by this pump

• …actually, two pumps…

• Atria = turbochargers

• Myocardium = muscle

• Mechanical systole

• Electrical systole

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To understand the ECG:

Electrophysiology of a single cell How a wave of electrical current

propagates through myocardium Specific structures of the heart

through which the electrical wave travels

How that leads to a measurable signal on the surface of the body

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Part I: A little electrophysiology

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Once upon a time, there was a cell:

ATPaseATPase

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Resting comfortably

a myocyte

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Depolarizing trigger

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open, briefly

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In: Na+

Mysterycurrent

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In: Na+

Ca++ is in balancewith K+ out

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In: Na+

Excitation/Contraction Coupling:Ca++ causes the Troponin Complex

(C, I & T) to release inhibitionof Actin & Myosin

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In: Na+

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More K+ out;Ca++ flow halts

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In: Na+

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Out: K+

Sodium channels reset

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In: Na+

Higher resting potentialFew sodium channels reset

Slower upstroke

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a pacemaker cell

Slow current of Na+ in;note the resting potential

is less negative in apacemaker cell

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a pacemaker cell

Threshold voltage

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. . . and K+ flows out

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. . . and when it is negativeagain, a few Na+

channels open

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How a wave of electrical current propagates through myocardium

Typically, an impulse originating anywhere in the myocardium will propagate throughout the heart

Cells communicate electrically via “gap junctions”

Behaves as a “syncytium” Think of the “wave” at a football

game!

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The dipole field due to current flow in a myocardial cell at the advancing front of depolarization.

Vm is the transmembrane potential.

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Cardiac Electrical Activity

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Important specific structures

Sino-atrial node = pacemaker (usually) Atria After electrical excitation: contraction Atrioventricular node (a tactical pause) Ventricular conducting fibers (freeways) Ventricular myocardium (surface roads) After electrical excitation: contraction

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The Idealized Spherical Torso with the Centrally Located Cardiac Source (Simple dipole model)

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Excitation of the Heart

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Excitation of the Heart

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Cardiac Electrical Activity

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Recording the surface ECG

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Clinical Lead Placement

Einthoven Limb Leads:

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Precordial leads

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12 Lead ECG

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The temporal pattern of the heart vector combined with the geometry of the standard frontal plane limb leads.

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Normal features of the electrocardiogram.

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Normal sinus rhythm

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What has changed?

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Sinus bradycardia

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Neurohumeral factors

Vagal stimulation makes the resting potential

MORE NEGATIVE. . .

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Neurohumeral factors

. . . and the pacemakercurrent SLOWER. . .

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. . . and raise the THRESHOLD

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Catecholamines make the resting potential MORE EXCITED. . .

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. . . and speed the PACEMAKER CURRENT. . .

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. . . and lower the THRESHOLD FOR

DISCHARGE. . .

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Vagal Stimulation:

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Adrenergic Stim.

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Sinus arrhythmia

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Atrial premature contractions (see arrowheads)

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Usually just a spark; rarely sufficient for an explosion

“Leakiness” leads to pacemaker-like current

Early after-depolarization Late after-depolarization

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What’s going on here?

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Wave-front Trajectory in a Ventricular Premature Contraction.

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Is this the same thing?

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What’s going on here?

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What’s going on here?

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Non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (3 episodes)

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Slow Refractory

Quick Refractory

KeyWords: Heterogeneous, Circus, Self-Perpetuating

Side “A” Side “B”

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No Longer Refractory

KeyWords: Heterogeneous, Circus, Self-Perpetuating

Side “A” Side “B”

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KeyWords: Heterogeneous, Circus, Self-Perpetuating

Side “A” Side “B”

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KeyWords: Heterogeneous, Circus, Self-Perpetuating

Side “A” Side “B”

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KeyWords: Heterogeneous, Circus, Self-Perpetuating

Side “A” Side “B”

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KeyWords: Heterogeneous, Circus, Self-Perpetuating

Side “A” Side “B”

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INCREASEDRefractory

Side “A” Side “B”

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INCREASEDRefractory

Side “A” Side “B”

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INCREASEDRefractory

Side “A” Side “B”

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INCREASEDRefractory

Side “A” Side “B”

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INCREASEDRefractory

Side “A” Side “B”

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INCREASEDRefractory

Side “A” Side “B”

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Ventricular Fibrillation

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Heart attack

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Hyperkalemia

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Understanding the ECG: A Cautionary Note

Basic cell electrophysiology, wavefront propagation model, dipole model:

Powerful, but incomplete There will always be electrophysiologic

phenomena which will not conform with these explanatory models

Examples: metabolic disturbances anti-arrhythmic medications need for 12-lead ECG to record a 3-D phenomenon

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Questions?