How Much Should I Worry About This EKG?

How many times have you been in this scenario:

A patient comes in with chest pain to the clinic, and the EKG reads "abnormal" but you can't see anything wrong with it. The patient says to you "what does my EKG say, should I be worried?"

You start worrying too because you know you should know this. But you only got a few hours of 12 lead in school and that was DURING all the rest of the info you were supposed to learn and retain.

Sound familiar? I know, because I was once there too. I felt those same pangs of nerves and hoped and prayed I would know the answer.

But that isn't the answer. It lies deeper in actually knowing those big bad wolves that can hide in those EKG squiggles.

It is THAT which we should ficus on instead of learning the painful minutiae that is not as important. This blog will be dedicated to those findings. In the meantime have an amazing thanksgiving week!