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3D Heart: a new visual training method for electrocardiographic analysis.

Olson CW, Lange D, Chan JK, Olson KE, Albano A, Wagner GS, Selvester RH

ECG Tech Corporation, Huntington Station, NY, USA. colson1@optonline.net <colson1@optonline.net>

This new training method is based on developing a sound understanding of the sequence in which electrical excitation spreads through both the normal and the infarcted myocardium. The student is made aware of the cardiac electrical performance through a series of 3-dimensional pictures during the excitation process. The electrocardiogram 3D Heart 3-dimensional program contains a variety of different activation simulations. Currently, this program enables the user to view the activation simulation for all of the following pathology examples: normal activation; large, medium, and small anterior myocardial infarction (MI); large, medium, and small posterolateral MI; large, medium, and small inferior MI. Simulations relating to other cardiac abnormalities, such as bundle branch block and left ventricular hypertrophy fasicular block, are being developed as part of a National Institute of Health (NIH) Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

Published 3 September 2007 in J Electrocardiol, 40(5): 457.e1-7.
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