Modern Electrocardiography and General Practice

Abstract

So far as technical aspects are concerned, physicians need have no immediate concern about any important change in the present method of recording electrocardiograms, New leads under investigation are not yet ready for clinical use, and it may be that in an attempt to get purity of components, systems have been set up which hide clinically important “impurities”.

The most common error in electrocardiographic interpretation is to make an anatomic diagnosis from the electrocardiogram alone. Perhaps even more serious is the conclusion, reached too often, that a patient whose electrocardiogram is within normal limits does not have heart disease.