19.2

EKG Tutorial Part I

from The Hippocrates Project at the New York University School of Medicine.
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/courses/physiology/courseware/ekg_pt1/
A sophisticated shockwave tutorial describing how electrical depolarization and repolarization of heart tissue drives the heart and is recorded on a standard Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG). Professor Sayegh, Physics Department, University of Michigan also has a site which explains some of the physics of an EKG.
The Hippocrates site contains other multimedia medical tutorials available to the public.

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