I fear I may have become a massive EKG nerd. I just started trying to watch the first episode of The Pitt season two and had to rage quit about five minutes in. 😡😤
Below is an extremely nerdy (and possibly judgy) medical rant, proceed at your own risk…
That first scene where Whitaker, Santos, the new guy and Javadi are doing a resuscitation was so dumb. Like, insulting my intelligence level idiotic.
What well-educated medical provider would be unable to recognize Torsades de Pointes? You couldn’t pass ACLS without knowing this heart rhythm. It’s one of the most distinct heart rhythms in the study of EKGs. And these characters are supposed to be doctors? DOCTORS?!!
These idiots can’t even get it together enough to recognize TORSADES!!! Their medical schools should take back their degrees! (They have degrees this season right? I think Whitaker is an intern now? IDK, I quit watching after 5 minutes.)
Torsades is an easy heart rhythm. It’s incredibly distinct. You don’t even have to count, you don’t have to measure. There aren’t a bunch of other things that look like it. And they thought it was monomorphic (one shape) it is very clearly a polymorphic rhythm (multiple shapes)!
One shape versus multiple shapes. It’s not hard.
They put that on screen for .01 seconds and I recognized it immediately. And trust me, I’m no one’s genius. Did they show them making this mistake to try and make the audience members feel smart? Because if I was in an ER and the providers were mis-identifying Torsades, I’d be flying out of there at Mach 6. 🤦🏼♀️
I might need to stop studying EKGs so hard. It’s ruining my television watching experience.
On a good note though, at least they had the correct rhythm on the monitor once they identified it. I’ve seen a lot of television where they don’t even have the correct rhythm that they’re talking about up on the monitor during the scene. So I suppose this is an improvement.
I need to gather my strength and patience before I can continue watching the show. 😮💨
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Seen a few artists get this wrong but this is the basic anatomy for an ECG waveform:
You NEED the P "wave", the QRS complex, and the T wave to portray a normal rhythm.
On real monitoring equipment the waveforms can look a little fuzzier and this is usually from eletrical interference but these three pieces of the waveform are essential unless you're trying to portray a pathology (i.e. something wrong with the heart)
Fast heart beat has shorter space between QRS complexes:
And the opposite with bradycardia (slow heart beat):
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Amazing resource for normal and abnormal ECGs: Dialed Medics (trace away! Lol)