Acta Scientific Medical Sciences (ASMS)(ISSN: 2582-0931)

Short Communication Volume 6 Issue 4

An International Consensus for the Value of the Electrocardiographic QT Interval

Breijo Márquez Francisco R*

Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Department in Chief, East Boston Hospital, School of Medicine, Massachusetts, U.S.A

*Corresponding Author: Breijo Márquez Francisco R, Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Department in Chief, East Boston Hospital, School of Medicine, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Received: February 24, 2022; Published: March 16, 2022

For many authors, the electrical cardiac systole includes from the beginning of the Q wave (or beginning of the R wave if there is no Q wave) to the ending of the T wave, wherever the descending branch of the T wave reaches the isoelectric line of the ECG.

Keywords: Electrocardiography; QT Interval; Interval Length; Normal Values; Discrepancies with QT Interval Values

References

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Citation

Citation: Breijo Márquez Francisco R. “An International Consensus for the Value of the Electrocardiographic QT Interval”.Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 6.4 (2022): 107-109.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 Breijo Márquez Francisco R. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.




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