What would an EKG show during a cough?!


Question: Would show no activity or alot of artifact???


Answers: Would show no activity or alot of artifact???

Well , from my own experience a cough does not do any thing, however laughing does. I was having one done and my daughter told me something that was very funny so i laughed and the nurse's came running to see if i was ok. The ekg was done over to get a different reading without laughing that time.

It should be the same as if you are not coughing. An ekg is the measurement of the electrical activity of your Heart . And a cough is mechanical and should not interfere with the electrical outcome.

I think it would show an artifact if anything.
at the same time it is only measuring electric activity and that would not change if it only a cough.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Clinica...

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