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K p ( A bstract— This statement examines the relation of the resting ECG o its technology. Its purpose is to foster understanding of how the odern ECG is derived and displayed and to establish standards that ill improve the accuracy and usefulness of the ECG in practice. erivation of representative waveforms and measurements based on lobal intervals are described. Special emphasis is placed on digital ignal acquisition and computer-based signal processing, which proide automated measurements that lead to computer-generated di-

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