The Electric Pathway In your future career you will have lots of exposure to the ECG/EKG. It is important that you fully understand the anatomic reasons behind the use of the ECG/EKG. Spend some quality time with the section dealing with “The Electric Pathway” on pages 317-320. Prepare a detailed outline or some other form of note-taking that you normally use for studying that organizes the important parts of this section demonstrating your understanding and submit to your instructor.