Introduction:

Due to the difficulties detected in the performance of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students in the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias and the need to master this knowledge for the graduate profile of some of the medical science specialties, it is necessary and pertinent to develop educational tools that contribute to solve this problem. This project was carried out, taking as a background the distance course on cardiac arrhythmias based on a hypermedia of the same name, which is currently unusable due to technological obsolescence and that the use of educational software constitutes an alternative that contributes to raise the quality of teaching.

Objective:

To develop an updated version of the hypermedia Cardiac Arrhythmias from a technological point of view.

Methods:

A technological innovation project was carried out. For the construction of the hypermedia, the Cuban guide for migration to free software was followed; HTML5, cascading style sheets and JavaScript version 1.5 were used.

Results:

A new version of the Cardiac Arrhythmias hypermedia was developed on WEB technology, multiplatform and open source that can be used in the teaching-learning process of the medical disciplines that deal with this entity.

Conclusions:

The Cardiac Arrhythmias Hypermedia is a technologically updated teaching support material for undergraduate and postgraduate students to develop skills in the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias as its contents address characteristics, conduct to follow, electrocardiograms and sounds of cardiac arrhythmias.

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