Should I Get an Echocardiogram?

If you have a doubt about pediatric EKG and especially if the story doesn't make sense or there's something funky in the story, just call the PD cardiologist and say, hey, can you look at the CKG for me? So yeah, just if there's any doubts. And then we'll know, oh, based on that story, that sounds a little funny. Hey, the CKG is kind of borderline. It's not totally normal. Maybe we'll see this kid in clinic next week and just kind of dot the eyes and cross the teeth. A lot of the times, especially when you're getting EKGs in the emergency department, we see abnormal E