ECGs are often taught by rote learning and pattern recognition. A little extra attention to some basic anatomy and electrophysiology however will have your patients' ECGs whispering all their cardiac secrets to you. In this series we will work systematically through the ECG, building new insight and a solid, practical approach to ECG decoding. This episode explains what the cardiac axis is, why it matters, what makes it abnormal, and how to measure it. 

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