Symptoms that Required ECG Diagnostics in the Ambulatory Unit of the City Institute for Urgent Medical Care Belgrade

Introduction: Ambulatory unit of The City Institute for Urgent Medical Care Belgrade (CIFUMCB) is a primary health care institution[1] and is located in Franche D’Epere Street 5, Belgrade. This outpatient clinic operates in day and night shifts. The law [2] stipulates that the CIFUMCB must have an electrocardiography (ECG). The ECG is used at all levels of health care: it is used widely in the pre-hospital phase and at all levels of hospital care for diagnosing and early detection of various disorders, as well as being an integral part of patient triage. At the Community Health Center depending on needs and accessibility, the general practitioner often records ECG tracings on patients who he is already familiar with. In the outpatient setting of an emergency medicine department, the ECG is often performed for complaints that are not always characteristic for a disease. In contrast to the outpatient clinic of a Community Health Center, patients at the emergency department usually present for the first time, are not familiar to the doctor who examines them, there are no medical records available, and the patients usually do not have medical documentation. Specialists in general and emergency medicine are employed at the CIFUMCB.

Keywords: ECG diagnostics, EKG, primary healthcare, City Institute for Urgent medical care.