The ECG Blog

Happy birthday, ECGBlog!

October 12, 2009

Happy birthday, folks!

It’s been a year since I created The ECG Blog, imagine that. I first started it because I needed a place where I could share my interest for ECG interpretation with others. I wanted to meet and discuss with people, to learn and be inspired. All of this and even more has come become true, so it´s been a great year. I could never have done this without you, my readers, so to all of you: I’m truly grateful to all of you for visiting and commenting! Thanks a lot!

A lot of things has happened during this first year in the blogosphere . It has been very rewarding, as it keeps me inspired in my own profession as an ER nurse (now specializing to become an ICU nurse, which in Norway requires 1.5 years at the university in addition to a nursing bachelor). I’ve also collected nearly 600 12 lead ECGs, bought 26 books about ECG interpretation and met a lot of inspiring people! One of those people is Tom Bouthillet over at the excellent Prehospital 12 Lead ECG blog. His knowledge on ECG interpretation, his tutorials and case presentations is simply amazing. Check him out! And while you’re at it, there is also The EKG Club, a Yahoo! discussion group open to everyone who likes discussing ECG. It’s a really friendly and great group, with more than 800 members and all kinds of health care professionals.

And then, in April I was contacted by the renowned Electrophysiology Lab Digest, who gave me the opportunity to present myself and The ECG Blog both online and in their printed magazine. And even more happened: Just a couple of months ago, I was lucky enough to be contacted by Billy Hurd at Pace Symposia. They are developing what is looking to be one of the possibly greatest ECG rhythm simulators on the market. I’ve been lucky enough to test it for them, and I wrote a short review of it here. Tom B. (above) wrote a better and more thorough review of it at his blog. The simulator can be downloaded as a free 24-hr trial version here.

Stats are always fun (I think), and I’d like to share with you the stats for this blog. After all, you created them!

Total stats in numbers

Visitors per month

Numbers months and days

Most popular posts

Last, but not least, I really would like your opinions on how to improve this blog. Any criticism or comments that are constructive are welcome! Anything you’re missing? What do you like and what not? Other ideas? Bring ‘em on! Help me make this site better and bigger!

Happy birthday!

-klaus

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