Neurocardiac ECG Lab

Read the ECG as a brain-heart interface

The surface tracing is now framed through autonomic tone, respiratory coupling, and AV nodal braking. Instead of only tweaking voltages, you can move through realistic vagal and sympathetic teaching states, then inspect how those shifts alter the ECG paper, rhythm strip, and cardiac vector.

Active preset

Balanced Rest

API target

internal Next.js route handlers

Autonomic presets

Shift the tracing through realistic physiological states

Choose a preset, then fine-tune the grouped controls below.

Display toggles

ECG-paper realism

Paper speed

Lead layout

Faster paper speeds show fewer milliseconds across the same screen width, which makes interval inspection feel much closer to bedside ECG review.

Consult frames

Read the strip through neurocardiac scenarios

These frames push the lab beyond parameter twiddling. Pick the consult scenario, load the aligned physiology, and then decide what the strip is really saying versus what it could be mistaken for.

Syndrome frame

Acute neurogenic stress pattern

The tracing is fast, relatively fixed, and catecholamine-weighted. The teaching question is whether the ECG is reflecting primary cardiac disease or an autonomic response to acute CNS injury or severe stress physiology.

Highest-yield next data

  • Serial troponins and dynamic ECG trend rather than one tracing in isolation
  • Bedside correlation with the neurological trigger, echo pattern, and hemodynamic context

Compare mode

Best mechanism versus attractive misread

Best mechanism

Central sympathetic surge with neurocardiac spillover, producing a tachycardic and repolarization-shifted surface pattern.

  • Neurogenic ECG changes are often diagnosis-adjacent but not diagnosis-complete.
  • The wrong move is to let the strip erase the neurological context that generated it.

Weaker alternative

Primary ACS by ECG appearance alone

An isolated tracing cannot outrank the physiology. When sympathetic context is overwhelming, repolarization distortion can be secondary and demands correlation rather than reflexively becoming the diagnosis.

Autonomic tone

Controls that mostly shape sinus rate, respiratory coupling, and baroreflex-style variability.

Conduction timing

Intervals that change AV nodal delay, depolarization width, and repolarization timing.

Morphology and acquisition

Amplitude and projection controls that shape what the surface leads record and how strongly they appear.

3D cardiac activation

Dipole replay through the beat

Generate ECG to animate a beat

Lead constellation

Which lead sees the strongest vector

Generate ECG to inspect the vector field

Representative beat phase

Scrub through activation timing

Generate ECG to animate a representative beat.

Surface ECG

Clinical 12-lead sheet

Showing 6000 ms at 25 mm/s with a 10 mm/mV teaching reference.