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How Did Willem Einthoven Use Electrocardiography?

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The first accurate recording using an electrocardiogram (ECG) occurred in 1895. Willem Einthoven was the first person to create an ECG that accurately depicted the recording of the heart’s electrical currents (Jenkins, 2011). Einthoven “was awarded the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine”(Nobelprize, 2014, p. 1) in 1924 for the discovery of the electrocardiogram (Nobelprize 2014). Not only did he configure the machine but he also created the deflections. They are the labels of the points on the wave created by the electrocardiogram, PQRST, are the letters at each point or curve on the wave . Einthoven was the sole founder of the ECG but without the help of previous scientist Einthoven would have never discovered the electrocardiogram

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