Pro · AI educational tool
EKG Interpreter Pro (educational decision-support — not a diagnostic device)
Snap a photo of a rhythm strip or 12-lead — or paste the monitor/machine read or a cardiologist's 12-lead impression — and get a plain-English educational explanation: what the tracing shows, the rhythm it's most consistent with (with the features behind it), what it typically means, and the literature-based monitoring considerations. Cited to current cardiology references (AHA/ACC/HRS, ACLS, AACN). This is study + bedside-learning material. It is NOT a diagnostic device, NOT a rhythm read you can chart, and AI reads — especially from photos — can be wrong. Always confirm on the monitor, with a 12-lead when indicated, and with the provider.
New to rhythms? Pair this with the free EKG Rhythm Education tool — 20 rhythms with strips, criteria, and treatment context.
Before you use this tool
- This tool is for nursing education and continuing-education use only. It is NOT a diagnostic device, NOT a clinical interpretation, and NOT medical advice.
- AI rhythm interpretation can be wrong — especially from a phone photo (glare, angle, partial strips, no calibration mark). Treat every read as a study prompt, never a charted finding.
- Always confirm against the bedside monitor, obtain/review a 12-lead when indicated, and defer to the provider, your facility's policy, and your scope of practice.
- Do NOT upload or paste anything with Protected Health Information (PHI) — no patient names, MRNs, dates of birth, or accession numbers. Crop identifiers out of any photo and paste only the impression text.
- The tool will refuse if the image is too low-quality to read, isn't an EKG, or contains PHI. That's working as intended.
- Your photo is not stored. It's held in memory only for the single analysis, processed by our AI provider to generate the read, and discarded when the request finishes — it is never saved to our servers, logged, or used to train any model. Typed text is run through an automatic PHI scrubber before analysis.
- Educational use only — this is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, or direct care; it's a study aid for licensed clinicians and students. See our Privacy & HIPAA policy for how data is handled.
What this tool can get wrong — read once
- Dangerous misclassifications. The big one is wide-complex tachycardia (mixing up VT and "SVT with aberrancy") — but also AFib vs. atrial flutter vs. MAT, Mobitz I vs. Mobitz II, and any ST-elevation / ischemia call. Never act on the rhythm name alone.
- Rate & intervals are guesswork from a photo. Without a visible calibration mark and standard paper speed (25 mm/s), the model cannot truly measure rate, PR, QRS, or QT — type them in below if you can read them.
- A single-lead strip can't support 12-lead conclusions. Axis, ischemia localization, bundle-branch morphology, and VT criteria all need specific leads a strip may not show.
- Artifact mimics pathology. Tremor can look like AFib or VT; lead reversal and a wandering baseline fool the read.
- No clinical context. The same tracing means different things depending on the patient's symptoms, labs, and history — which the tool doesn't have.
- Overconfidence / made-up numbers. AI can state a crisp rhythm or a measurement it can't actually see. Treat a confident-sounding answer with the same caution as a hesitant one.
- Pediatric & neonatal EKGs differ. Normal values change with age, so error rates are higher there.
1. Paste the impression — or upload a photo
Max 6000 characters. Paste only the impression / read — no patient identifiers.
JPEG / PNG / HEIC · up to 8 MB · shoot straight-on, fill the frame, crop out any identifiers
Pro · evidence-cited · ~8–20 seconds
2. Educational interpretation
Paste an impression (or upload a photo), then click interpret.