Hello all, i'm a new medic and work full time for a private and part time for a primary response district with 10-15 minute transport times to the closest facility. Many of the veteran medics at the primary response district seem to be overly eager to do 12-lead ekg's on patients. We don't carry thrombolytics and the hospitals around here don't care to see our strips if we do run a 12-lead. My thought is that if the patient has s&s that would suggest MI I would do a 12-lead enroute if time allows, otherwise I won't worry about it. I've had different medics tell me to run one on abd pain patients (once in nsr once in sinus tach). The only benefit I can see is that it would allow us to notify the cath lab prior to our arrival. I would like to hear what some of you might think of this and how often you run 12-leads.