I guess it also checks how strong your heart is. Does it test anything else?
2006-12-23 06:13:55 · 6 answers · asked by Steve B 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
No, it measures the frequency and strength of your heart muscle.
2006-12-23 06:22:03 · answer #1 · answered by Allan 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The EKG gives a view of the electrical conduction of your heart from 12 different angles. Does not reveal the 'strength' of your heart muscle. The strength of the heart can be seen through an echocardiogram revealing the Ejection Fraction. (it's like an ultrasound of the heart)
The EKG can show if blockage in your arteries are causing ischemia (oxygen deprivation) or a myocardial infarction (heart attatck). EKG can also reveal any old heart attack by displaying a 'bundle branch block'.
A Cardiac Catheterization would be the test to visualize the flow of the coronary arteries through injecting a dye. Intervention can be done with this test using PCI (percutaneous intervention).
2006-12-23 13:35:43 · answer #2 · answered by nancynurse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EKG just check your heart beat/ min and whether you have normal/abnormal heart beat.
You go for Echocardiography to check the heart muscles and the valves. You go for treadmill stress test (75% accuracy) or coronary angiogram/catheter (95% accuracy) to check if you have any blockages in the arteries
2006-12-23 19:52:10 · answer #3 · answered by AlisonJonshon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no - the only thing it says is that during that 14 seconds the electrical system was fine.
to test arteries a person needs an arteriogram or other neuclear medicine studues such as a SPECT
2006-12-23 06:57:53 · answer #4 · answered by texastom 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
EKG can give several pieces of information
http://drchander.com/differenttests.html
2006-12-23 13:04:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no....you would need to go to a cardiologist to have that checked.
2006-12-23 07:36:31 · answer #6 · answered by ~*common sense*~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋