Personal Experience As A Cardiac Monitor Technician

I remember the time when I used to work, as a cardiac monitor technician in the Intensive care unit of a local hospital in Tampa. I was watching the patient’s monitors while one of them started showing and ST elevation on the cardiac rhythm, (ST elevations usually on the strip can mean different things and depending on the leads showing on the screen, it might represent an infarct).
In that case, the patient was experimenting a heart attack. Suddenly, the patient started complaining of shortness of breath and intense chest pressure. I notified the nurse right away what was happening on the monitor, the whole nursing team ran into the patient room. The patient’s blood pressure was sky high, so they administered sublingual nitroglycerin and