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One payment. No subscription.
EKG practice for $19.99 for 30 days, or $39.99 for a year. It costs less than one textbook, it does not renew, and there is nothing to cancel after your exam.
Free
$0forever
Daily strips, a quiz and a sample test, to find out where you stand.
- Five practice strips a day, each explained
- Three more daily strips on the home page
- A 10-question sample test every day
- A printable 20-strip test with answers
- The 10-question EKG quiz
- Full rhythm library
30 days
Exam prep$19.99one payment
For the weeks before an exam or a new unit.
- Unlimited practice: 492,000 different strips
- Every strip measured and explained
- Timed 35-question exams, marked like a hospital’s
- The Relias Basic outline, built in
- Caliper trainer: PR, QRS, QT and rate
- A new printable paper whenever you want
- Missed-strip review and weak-rhythm stats
- 24-hour refund
One year
$39.99one payment
For students and travel nurses who test again and again.
- Unlimited practice: 492,000 different strips
- Every strip measured and explained
- Timed 35-question exams, marked like a hospital’s
- The Relias Basic outline, built in
- Caliper trainer: PR, QRS, QT and rate
- A new printable paper whenever you want
- Missed-strip review and weak-rhythm stats
- 24-hour refund
Prices in US dollars. Both paid plans include the same features; they differ only in length. Already have an account? Log in
It does not renew
A plan is one payment for a fixed time. When it ends, it ends: no second charge, and nothing to remember to cancel.
Refund within 24 hours
If it is not what you expected, write to us within 24 hours of paying and the payment is refunded.
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What stands behind the price
A dysrhythmia exam usually allows one or two attempts, and a job can depend on it. A plan is built for that: more strips than anyone can memorize, each one checked, marked the way the exam is marked.
- 492,000different practice strips
- 12,000 of each of 41 rhythms. The rate, the intervals and the wave shapes change every time, so there is no picture to memorize.
- 552,000strips measured before release
- A separate program that sees only the finished trace reads every strip back. It has to find the rhythm, the rate and the intervals we report.
- Every stripexplained from its own numbers
- After your answer the strip is marked up with calipers, and the explanation quotes this PR interval, this rate, this dropped beat.
- 35 questionsmarked like a hospital exam
- A pass mark of 80, 85 or 90%, every lethal rhythm required, a score for each section, and every question explained afterwards.
- Relias Basicoutline built in
- One setting shares the questions out as Relias publishes for its Dysrhythmia (Basic) assessment: 31% sinus, 26% atrial, 17% lethal.
- One paymentno subscription
- Thirty days or a year, paid once. Nothing renews, there is nothing to cancel, and a refund is one email within 24 hours.
What a plan includes
All of it is in both plans, and all of it is built on strips that are drawn fresh and checked before you see them.
How the strips are made and tested is on the about and methods page.
- Unlimited practice strips
- A new strip every time across more than forty rhythms, with the rate, the intervals and the wave shapes different on each one. There is no fixed set to memorize. See it
- Every strip explained
- After each answer the strip is marked up with its own measurements, and the explanation quotes the numbers on that strip: this PR interval, this rate, this dropped beat.
- Caliper measurement trainer
- Put the calipers on the strip yourself and measure the PR interval, the QRS, the QT interval and the heart rate. A miss is explained leg by leg. See it
- Timed practice tests
- A full paper under exam conditions: 35 questions by default, a pass mark you can set, the lethal rhythms scored on their own, and a report with every question explained. See it
- Missed strips and weak rhythms
- Every strip you miss is kept so that you can try it again, and each rhythm is listed with how often you get it right, weakest first.
Free and paid, line by line
| Free $0, no account | 30 days or one year $19.99 or $39.99, one payment | |
|---|---|---|
| Practice strips | Five a day, plus three on the home page | Unlimited, never repeated |
| 10-question EKG quiz | Yes | Yes |
| Rhythm library, more than forty rhythms | Yes | Yes |
| Answers marked right or wrong | Yes | Yes |
| Explanation of the strip | The five on the practice page | Every strip |
| Strip marked up with its measurements | The five on the practice page | Every strip |
| Caliper measurement trainer | No | Yes |
| Timed practice tests with a report | One 10-question sample a day | 35 questions, a new paper every time |
| Practice test on the Relias Basic outline | No | Yes |
| Printable practice test (PDF) with answer key | Paper A: 20 strips | A new paper whenever you want: 20, 35 or 50 strips |
| Missed-strip review and weak-rhythm statistics | No | Yes |
How buying works
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Create an account
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Pay once
By credit or debit card, through Stripe. The price you see is the price, in US dollars; tax is added only where the law requires it.
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Start straight away
The plan is active the moment the payment goes through, on any device you sign in on, until the date shown in your account.
The refund policy, in full
Write to [email protected] within 24 hours of your purchase, from the email address on your account, and we refund the payment. After 24 hours payments are not refundable, except where the law requires otherwise or where we were unable to provide the service. The same words are in the terms of use.
Built for the exam in front of you
- The rhythms that nursing school, hospital dysrhythmia tests and ACLS ask about, with the ones that get confused side by side.
- Every strip is measured by a second program before you see it, so the answer and the numbers in the explanation are right.
- Strips drawn new each time. You learn to read, and reading works on any paper.
ekgstrips.com is an independent study site, and its strips are simulations for education only: see the medical disclaimer.
Questions about paying
Something not answered here? Write to [email protected]. A person reads it.
Will I be charged again when my plan ends?
No. Both plans are a single payment. There is no subscription behind them and no card is kept on file for a later charge. When the plan ends your account goes back to the free level.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, within 24 hours of paying. Write to [email protected] from the email address on your account and the payment is refunded. The policy is on this page in full.
Which plan should I choose?
If you have one exam in the next few weeks, 30 days. If you are in a nursing program, or you are a travel nurse who is tested again with each contract, the year: it costs about the same as two months.
What do the two plans include that differs?
Nothing. Both open exactly the same features. The only difference is how long they last.
Can I add time before my plan runs out?
Yes. Time you buy is added to the end of what you have left, so buying early loses nothing.
What am I paying for?
Practice that is built for one job: passing a dysrhythmia exam. 492,000 different strips, 12,000 of each of 41 rhythms, every one measured by a separate program before you see it, so nothing can be memorized and every explanation quotes the numbers on your own strip. Timed 35-question exams marked the way hospitals mark them, with a setting that follows the outline Relias publishes. A caliper trainer for PR, QRS, QT and rate. A new printable paper with its answer key whenever you want one. One payment covers all of it.
Is there a free trial?
Better than a trial: a free level that never ends. Five practice strips every day with each one explained, a 10-question sample practice test, the 10-question quiz and the whole rhythm library, with no account and no card. A plan adds unlimited strips, full-length practice tests that are new every time, the caliper trainer and your statistics.
Can I use it on my phone and my laptop?
Yes. Sign in on your phone, tablet or laptop and your plan is there. Your missed strips and statistics build up on the device you practise on.
What happens to my statistics when the plan ends?
They stay in your browser. If you buy a plan again on the same device, your missed strips and weak rhythms are still there.
Will I get a receipt for my school or employer?
Yes. A receipt is emailed to the address on your account when you pay, and each purchase is listed on your account page.
Do you have pricing for a class or a hospital unit?
Yes. Write to [email protected], tell us how many people and for how long, and we will answer with a price.
Will this prepare me for my exam?
It is built for rhythm-strip exams: nursing school and NCLEX rhythm questions, hospital dysrhythmia and telemetry tests such as the Relias dysrhythmia tests, EKG technician certification, and the rhythm part of ACLS. You practise the same rhythms and the same kinds of question on strips that are drawn new each time, so what you learn is the reading, and that holds on any paper.
Start tonight
Your plan is active the moment you pay, with a refund within 24 hours if it is not for you. Or see where you stand first: ten strips, about five minutes, no account.