Electrocardiography is performed widely throughout medi-
cine, ranging from the clinician’s office in a scheduled, routine
application to the critical care unit with an unanticipated
decompensation during active resuscitation. And, of course,
a multitude of other areas rely heavily on the ECG as valu-
able tool in the patient evaluation – the prehospital setting in
an EMS unit, the emergency department, the surgical suite
and post-anesthesia care area, among many others. In fact, it
is appropriate to state that some form of electrocardiographic
monitoring is one of the most widely applied diagnostic tests
in clinical medicine today. Electrocardiography, whether
single-lead monitoring for rhythm disorders or 12-lead ana-
lysis for ACS or other morphologic abnormality, remains one
of the most cost-effective and useful tests in medicine rapid,
non-invasive, inexpensive, portable, easily interpreted
often providing clinical information that will make the differ-
ence between life and death.
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