Why It's an EKG Stateside and not an ECG

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Einthoven was dutch (the Netherlands) and in my country, we call it ECG.
Lucas G. van Rossem
the Netherlands
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephen Richey, CRT, EMT-I/D 
  To: trauma-list at trauma.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 5:52 AM
  Subject: RE: Why It's an EKG Stateside and not an ECG


  Someone made a comment about Americans abbreviating electrocardiogram  EKG instead of the UK standard "ECG".  It has nothing with our inapparent ability to spell correctly (as evidenced by "gray/grey", "color/colour", etc) and everything to do with tradition.  Electrocardiography was invented by a German, who I think was named Einthoven (but don't hold me to that), and in German it is spelled "Elektrokardiographie" (and to all of the German speaking list members if I spelled that wrong....I think there's supposed to be an umlauted vowel in there somewhere but don't hold it against me I'm just learning.) and therefore abbreviated EKG.    Just my 2 cents, as one of list members is so fond of saying.

  Stephen Richey, CRT, EMT-I/D, FF



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