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The pediatric ECG.

Sharieff GQ, Rao SO

Children's Hospital and Health Center/University of California-San Diego, 3020 Children's Way, San Diego, CA 92123, USA. ghazalaqs@hotmail.com

Knowledge of the basics of pediatric ECG interpretation is helpful in differentiating normal from abnormal findings. These basics include familiarity with the age-related normal findings in heart rate, intervals, axis, and waveform morphologies; an understand-ing of cardiac physiologic changes associated with age and maturation, particularly the adaptation from right to left ventricular predominance; and a rudimentary understanding of common pediatric dysrhythmias and findings associated with congenital heart diseases.

Published 25 November 2005 in Emerg Med Clin North Am, 24(1): 195-208, vii-viii.
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