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We get EKGs on everybody.

If you haven't rotated through a department yet,

you might expect that we're just getting EKGs on patients with chest pain or shortness

of breath.

But in the real world, we order hundreds of EKGs for, it seems like

everything, abdominal pain and weakness and dizziness and vomiting. You name the chief complaint

and our triage is probably getting an EKG on it. And this is a good thing because lots of these

seemingly random chief complaints can actually be the first signs of a heart attack.

Something deadly that we can intervene on if we catch it.

So that's why we're getting that EKG.

But that means that we have to become EKG experts, not cardiology, you.

EKG interpretation is a core skill of emergency medicine doctors.

You need to become excellent at reading EKGs.

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