How to read your heart monitor trace

Heart monitor traces can look daunting at first but reading them is fairly straightforward. In this video, I talk you through how to read a heart monitoring trace and work out what the different rhythms are. Heart monitors are often done to look for abnormal heart rhythm disturbances. A common heart rhythm disturbance is AF or AFib. In this example i show you what a heart monitor trace in a patient with AFib looks like