The Minnesota Code Manual of Electrocardiographic Findings, 2nd Edition

The Minnesota Code Manual of Electrocardiographic Findings by Ronald J. Prineas is a reference book that provides a comprehensive guide to electrocardiographic findings. The book is a revised edition of the classic reference, incorporating new refinements and extensions to the Minnesota Code, which allows for a greater range of abnormalities to be coded. The book includes standardized methods of measurements and is used in epidemiologic studies and clinical trials worldwide.

The manual is suitable for training electrocardiographers and technicians and can be accompanied by sets of training ECGs already coded by trainers. It is our expectation that the manual will serve as a reference, guide, and training source for those conducting studies that require objective evidence of cardiac disease, both prevalent and incident, by noninvasive, highly standardized, inexpensive recording of the electrocardiogram. In our own ECG Reading Center, this has included epidemiologic studies among healthy populations, diabetics, psychiatric patients, pregnant women, cohorts of patients with clinical heart disease, populations exposed to environmental contaminants such as arsenic, populations exposed to Chagas disease, and in clinical trials of HIV-infected participants, diabetics, hypertensives, children, the aged, dietary intervention studies and phase I and phase II drug studies.