Beat anatomy

Click any part of the beat to open it isolated — what it is, its normal shape in this lead, and how the pattern bends it. Simulator · Lessons

PR QRS QT TP P PR Q R S J ST T U

One generated beat of lead II, calibrated 1 small box = 40 ms × 0.1 mV. Unit boundaries are teaching approximations from the R-peak + measured PR/QRS/QT.

Conduction & flow

Where the current is while the beat is written — press play, scrub, or click the trace. Clicking a part of the beat above highlights the structures that make it.

Coronal — conduction tree
SA Bachmann AV His RBB LBB LAF LPF
Transverse — short-axis spread
His septum RBB LBB
━ active flow ╌ delayed / slow ✕ block ━ accessory pathway ★ ectopic focus

SA node fires, the atria depolarise (P), the AV node holds the wavefront (PR), then the His-Purkinje system activates both ventricles almost simultaneously — a narrow QRS.

Schematic conduction path (Durrer1970, Kligfield2007, Surawicz2009) — for teaching, not diagnosis.