Channel: York Cardiology

Category: Education

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Description: Heart monitor traces can look daunting at first but reading them is fairly straightforward. In this video, I talk you through how to read a heart monitoring trace and work out what the different rhythms are. Heart monitors are often done to look for abnormal heart rhythm disturbances. A common heart rhythm disturbance is AF or AFib. In this example i show you what a heart monitor trace in a patient with AFib looks like