How to Place and Acquire a 12-Lead Diagnostic EKG

Join Best Practice Medicine Co-Founder, Loren Deichman, and your BPM-TV host Miles as they give an in-depth description of how to place and obtain a diagnostic quality electrocardiogram. Learn more about BPM and how we’re improving patient outcomes: Did you know electrocardiogram is abbreviated as both EKG and ECG? In German: Elektro-kardiographie, English: electrocardiography. An EKG is a record of electrical current in the heart over time. For many EMTs and Paramedics a 12-lead EKG is a vital tool in patient care. Discover the intricacies and minute considerations for acquiring quality diagnostic readings with pre-hospital electrocardiograms. Go beyond electrode placement with one of our EKG(ECG) interpretation courses: