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The electrical activity generated during the cardiac cycle can be measured from the body surface as the ECG. This chapter will summarize the correlation between cardiac events and the ECG in the normal heart and will follow the time course of cardiac activation.
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Kusumoto, F.M. (2009). The normal electrocardiogram. In: ECG Interpretation: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Application. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88880-4_3
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