By Dsealy – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link I hope this post is useful especially to student nurses and to those who need to educate patients about ECG/EKGs.😊 Doctors use a test known as an electrocardiogram, also referred to as an ECG or EKG, to measure the heart’s electrical activity and detect any anomalies in one of the most important organs of the body. An ECG makes a recording of the timing and strength of electrical impulses as they flow through the heart. Coming out in a moving strip of paper from the ECG device, the recording is then read and interpreted by the doctor to see if the…