9 stickies = 12 leads......
Number one difficulty is learning where all 9 leads go - for a 12 lead ECG. 3 are easy - the limbs (well, except for th Right Leg) - no-one mentioned how you do an ECG on an amputee though...... The other 6 go on the chest - in an inverted tick formation from just in from the right armpit to just in from the left armpit. Arghhhh!!!
Why are they so difficult to understand?
I think it is because we get taught it as one nice line which has all the waves at the correct timings, amplitudes and orientations. Then in the assessments they give us all 12 leads, with a pathology and my mind goes to grey jelly. It all makes sense when I read it in the textbooks, but come the real deal and it's back to grey goo.
Oh well I have some nice sBMJ printouts and some lecture notes, and an online game - I might understand this soon, then we move onto Bones........
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Have you got that book the ECG made easy, or something like that? Apparently its very good.....google....
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