EXCELLENT website for reading ecg strips

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Hello everyone, I am in my next to last semester of nursing school, we are studying the DREADED cardiovascular system right now...learning how to read EKG strips, our teacher gave us an EXCELLENT website for learning how to read them, and I thought i would share.

www.skillstat.com

then click on "tools" and then "ecg simulator"

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star77 said:
Here's another one where you can actually set the heart to depolarize and watch the results. Our CI taught us with it, and it was amazingly helpful to visualize how the heart was working/corresponding with various ECG strips. You can even set infarcts.

It's free, public, with versions for Windows and Macs at ecgsim dot org I think. If that doesn't work, PM me and I'll find it. Really REALLY cool.:redpinkhe

That is the correct address. Here's a hyperlink: http://ecgsim.org

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nursetobe_2010 said:
im bummed as well i have internet explorer and its small text and i cant read it...

Which version of IE? If it's 6 or lower, then update it (which you should, anyway, for security purposes).

You might also try updating your version of Flash Player... go to http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

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I had to open it in Safari 4 in order to get the larger view, ♪♫ in my ♥

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ok thank you!

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In firefox you can hit control and the plus sign to zoom the screen in. Just zoom in 3 or 4 times and you can see them fine. (Control and minus sign to zoom back out)

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I didn't have a problem with the small print on the simulator but I did in the other areas. I opened them up and then right clicked on the small area and went to view source and selected that and it brought the print up to full page. I am in IE. Hope it works for you too.

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Thanks so much for posting this. Very helpful!

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Skillstat.com is really helpful and I also found ECGTeacher.com to be very helpful as well, when used in conjunction with Skillstat. I'm not trying to dismiss Skillstat, I am an EMT-B trying to study for a transition into Paramedic class, for me ECGTeacher was more explanatory and went back to the basics to help me to remember a lot of what I had forgotten. Hope the other site is helpful as well. Thanks, Ray

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