title: [The ECG in pediatric patients: what the cardiologist needs to know].
abstract: During life ECG is always changing according to postnatal circulation adaptation, position of the heart in the chest, and body mass. Reference values and normal morphologies of P wave, PR interval, QRS complex, ST segment, T wave, and QTc interval are reported. Some clues to detect congenital and acquired heart diseases are also provided. Finally, a brief look at the most common diseases and arrhythmias in the neonatal and pediatric period is reported. When the pediatric ECG is too "young" for a cardiologist? When we need to stop doing the report? ... never! The baby is the father of the adult. The heart is made of signs: we have to decipher them.
authors.affiliation: Centro Regionale per la Diagnosi e la Cura del Cardiopatico Congenito Adulto, Università Degli Studi, Bologna. gabronz@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bronzetti
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mariucci
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonvicini
authors.forename: Fernando Maria
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Picchio
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology; D002648:Child; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn