[The ECG in emergency patients and its therapeutic consequences (author's transl)]

The increase in internal emergencies compels the doctor on emergency duty to differentiate. For the primary diagnosis, in addition to palpation of the pulse and the patient's utterances of pain, the leads of an ECG are available in the emergency ambulance. Therefore tachycardias, bradycardias and arrhythmias can be differentiated. The question of the therapeutic consequences in the individual case according to the classification of these different forms of rhythmic distrubances by the doctor first treating the case are discussed. General guiding principles for treatment are pointed out.