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ECG: Normal Heartbeat
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ECG: Normal Heartbeat

    A normal electrocardiogram (ECG), with its continuous pattern of spikes and waves, showing a regular heart rate and normal rhythm.

From D Dubin, Rapid Interpretation of EKGs, 1996, Cover Inc., p. 95; with permission.

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