Top EMS Game Changers – #2: 12-lead EKGs

There was a time before prehospital 12-leads when I learned why we need prehospital 12-leads. The details are sketchy, but during paramedic school in 1995, I was treating a cardiac patient who presented with ST elevation in lead I. As for the other leads … well, there were only I, II and III on my Lifepak 10 – not much to go on. I knew ST elevation was a sign of badness – a heart ...

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