66337 - Electrocardiography

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Course contents

PROGRAMME

Arrhythmias 

Basics of electrophysiological mechanisms for arrhythmias genesis

Classification of arrhythmias

Brady and tachyarrhythmias : ECG patterns

Intracardiac signals: methods and techniques for detection and recording and clinical implications for arrhythmias management

Electrocardiography

The basics of ECG

ECG: normal and pathlogical patterns

ECG in acute and chronic ischemic heart disease

ECG in conduction disturbances, hypertrophy and cardiomyopathies

Readings/Bibliography

Material provided by the teacher.

Teaching methods

The course is made up of lectures with the support of Power Point presentations.


Assessment methods

The exam will be a multiple-choice quiz. An oral examination will be performed only if necessary. The final score will be weighted averaged with the scores of the other modules, to obtain the global grade.

Office hours

See the website of Igor Diemberger