Are you about to have a cardiac arrest?

An EKG otherwise known as an electrocardiogram measures the electrical activity of your heart. In the hospital we use these (or variations of these) to monitor patients either continuously or just for a static point in time. Refer to the EKG to the left. Does your EKG look like this one? It's hard to tell because someone who has an EKG like this might feel perfectly fine, as you hopefully feel while you are reading this. If however, you happen to have electrical activity being generated inside your heart that creates the EKG above you are in fact in a very ominous condition. At any point in time, your heart could stop and you would therefore be in a cardiac arrest. Hopefully around you at that time there are at least two people who are well trained in CPR because this is the only way you would survive the situation that awaits you. Even then, if an ambulance didn't arrive within a few minutes you would likely suffer significant brain damage if you lived.

This is just a quick thought to have while you are sitting in front of your computer blogging away. But don't worry, since it is asymptomatic it will be a painless death.