The one-page ECG checklist
Two free printables for systematic ECG interpretation.
Every missed ECG finding traces back to the same problem: no system.
You glance at the rhythm, notice something obvious, and move on. The subtle P wave changes, the borderline QT, the slightly short PR: gone. Not because you don’t know them, but because you didn’t look.
So here are two printables:
The systematic ECG interpretation checklist
The first is a reference card: it follows the ECG waveform by waveform, left to right. For each: what's normal, what's abnormal, and what the abnormality points to.
The systematic ECG interpretation worksheet
The second is a practice worksheet: the same systematic structure, but blank. Print a stack, and fill one in every time you interpret an ECG until the system becomes automatic.
The reference card tells you what to look for.
The worksheet makes you actually look. Use this for practice.
Print them. Laminate the reference card (unlaminated paper has a half-life of one shift). Use them every time until you no longer need them.
The most effective ways to train the eye and mind to analyse ECGs accurately and consistently.