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If you’ve ever had an ECG in a GP’s Clinic or the back of an ambulance, you’ve likely watched the machine spit out a strip of pink grid paper covered in jagged peaks and troughs and wondered what the clinician is looking for.
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most routine investigations in medicine. It takes roughly two to three minutes, costs nothing in discomfort beyond peeling off sticky tabs/stickers, and gives doctors immediate information about how your heart is behaving.
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