Show the summed electrical activity generated by all the cells of the heart
Not the same as an action potential
Electrocardiogram (ECG)
Waves of the ECG
P wave
QRS complex
T wave
P wave
depolarization of the atria
QRS complex
wave of ventricular depolarization
Atrial repolarization is part of QRS
T wave
repolarization of the ventricle
Electrical events in the heart P, QRS, T
The Heart Contracts and Relaxes during a
cardiac cycle
cardiac muscle relaxes
diastole
cardiac muscle contracts
Systole