Cardiovascular | EKG Basics

hi ninja nurse what we're going to do in 

this video is we're going to talk about the basics of ekg this is a really important diagnostic tool that we should use as clinicians it's important for being able to look possible myocardial infarctions so it's a great tool that we as clinicians should be able to understand in order for us to do that we have to really kind of dig in just to the the basics of the electrical activity of the heart talk about how that represents vectors talk about how those vectors are basically interpreted um and generated through a graphical representation that we see on ekgs so let's go ahead and first start on the cardiac conduction system all right so let's go ahead and talk about a little bit about the cardiac action potentials right so whenever we re in order for us to really understand how the electrical activity the heart correlates with the corresponding ekg we have to understand just a little bit about electrodes okay just the basicsand basics on electrode  so let me give you an example of whati'm talking about here so in order for  there to be like this graphical representation because that's what an ekg is it's a graphical repres