A standardized procedure for locating and documenting ECG chest electrode...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......placement of electrocardiographic (ECG) chest electrodes, technical variability being the largest...abundant breast tissue, anterolateral chest electrodes in women are often placed under the...amplitudes, and in women, the placement of chest electrodes on the breast rather than under ...

The Novacode criteria for classification of ECG abnormalities and their...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......abnormalities and for clinically significant serial ECG changes, both adverse and favorable...methodology, cardiovascular epidemiology, serial ECG changes, myocardial infarction, arrhythmias...LVH), or arrhythmias. Classification of serial ECG changes is a relatively new ...

Home is where the defibrillator is. (Medical Mailbox).(Brief Article)

Saturday Evening Post;  March 1, 2003 ;     138 words ......HeartStart Home Defibrillator, manufactured by Philips Medical Systems, gives step-by-step directions on how to place the chest electrodes correctly and provides coaching for adult and child CPR, if needed. Many homeowners elect to buy and install security systems...

Accuracy of the EASI 12-lead electrocardiogram compared to the standard...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......ECGs are comparable for multiple cardiac diagnoses; however, serial ECG changes (eg, T-wave changes) should be assessed using one...lead placement creates a diagnostic dilemma when evaluating serial ECG changes. The need for more ECG information with fewer electrodes...

False positive ECG reports of anterior myocardial infarction in women

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......examined. Eighty four women were recruited to a study in which chest electrodes were placed strictly in adherence with recommendations...the other hand, Rautaharju et al. (5) recommended that chest electrodes in women should be placed on the breast. As far as is known...

Intraindividual variability in electrocardiograms

Journal of Electrocardiology;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......interpretation. Intraindividual variability is a hindrance in serial ECG analysis, where ECGs of the same individual, but taken at...Intraindividual variability is an important confounder in serial ECG analysis, where ECGs of the same individual, but taken at...

Serial ECG recordings via marked chest wall landmarks: An essential...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......deviations are witnessed when variation of the sites of precordial lead recordings, by even 1.0 cm, is implemented. In contrast serial ECG recordings made close in time in patients with AMI are remarkably reproducible. World-wide experience in electrocardiography...

Control of electrocardiogram acquisition errors: A brief perspective

Journal of Electrocardiology;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......purposes in clinical trials involving serial ECG recording.1 Another paper by the same...hospitals to mark down the locations of the chest electrodes on anterior and lateral diagrams of...some worst, hopefully rare instances, chest electrodes are just slapped on with only a ...

Medtronic Physio-Control Launches New UNI-LEAD(TM) Electrode System,...

PR Newswire;  November 13, 2001 ;     570 words ......accuracy, and ease of lead application. The UNI-LEAD(TM) Adult Disposable Precordial ECG Electrode System integrates the six chest electrodes used to acquire an electrocardiogram into one thin flexible array for efficient application. Medtronic Physio-Control...

On designing and testing transformations for derivation of standard...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Frank vectorcardiogram (VCG) from reduced lead sets using 3 "limb" electrodes at Mason-Likar torso sites combined with 2 chest electrodes at precordial sites V1 to V6; 15 such lead sets exist and each can be recorded with 6-wire cable. As a study population...

Toward personal eHealth in cardiology. Results from the EPI-MEDICS...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......compare each ECG with a reference ECG by means of advanced neural network-based decision-making methods taking into account the serial ECG measurements and the patient risk factors and clinical data; and generate different levels of alarms and forward the alarm...

Classification of ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction, acute...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 2000 ;     438 words ......among STEAMI and the other two groups. Twelve-lead resting ECGs were selected from the Providence Medical Center ECG database. Serial ECG characteristics were used to define the patient groups: STEAMI (321 pts)-- resolution of ST elevation and evolution of Q waves...

How many electrodes and where? A "poldermodel" for electrocardiography

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......propose a practical approach to increasing the diagnostic information content of the standard ECG by repositioning selected chest electrodes. Thus, in the best tradition of the Dutch "poldermodel," we have sought to strike a compromise between the demands of different...

12-Lead ECG: What should the standard be for continuous monitoring...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  January 1, 2008 ;     623 words ......standard, Mason-Likar, and reduced lead set methods. The potential danger of this situation is that when diagnosis requires serial ECG comparison (e.g., to determine whether ST segment elevation is resolving or worsening following early reperfusion therapy...

Right bundle branch block as a cause of false-negative ECG classification...

Journal of Electrocardiology;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......diagnosis of inferior MI, particularly in clinical trials where serial ECG analysis is an important part in MI classification. Key words: right bundle branch block, inferior Q wave, serial ECG changes. An important tenet of clinical electrocardiography...