what’s QTc mean on a heart monitor?

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What does this shit mean? I’m a PT aide in a hospital and I have no idea what that shit means and Google isn’t making sense

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so if you look eat each heartbeat on a heart monitor, you’ll see three bumps. the middle bump is the biggest. the other two are pretty small.

the big middle bump is Q (or technically it’s called QRS). and the third little bump is T.

QTc (or Q T interval) is the amount of time between those two bumps. It indicates how long it takes for the heart’s natural electrical signals to travel through the heart muscle, and how long it takes for that electrical signal to reset itself.

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