One of the ways students in Ivy Tech’s EKG certification program learn how to detect heart problems through three manikins which simulate testing on patients.

Your doctor may suggest you get an electrocardiogram, known as EKG or ECG, to check for signs of heart disease. Learn more in our comprehensive guide.

When Northside Hospital Forsyth in Cumming, Georgia, centralized its EKG, or electrocardiogram, and telemetry monitoring systems, it ran into an unexpected obstacle.