Chapter 10
ELECTRODE PLACEMENT
Advice: Set the chest electrode first, then the limb electrode.
10.1 Chest Electrode Placement
See the figure below.
Clean the skin where chest electrodes are to be attached with alcohol, then
apply ECG cream to here around 25mm in diameter and to the edge of chest
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electrodes, then press and attach the electrodes to the positions from V1-V6.
Note: Keep in mind that the electrodes' coming into contact with
each other or cream's overlap from one position to another is not
allowed to avoid short circuit.
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10.2 Limb Electrode Attachment
Electrodes should be placed on the soft skin of hands and feet. At first,
clean the positions where limb electrodes are to be attached with alcohol,
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then applying conductive cream to them.
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Note: Screw tightly the knob of ECG cable's plug after it is inserted
to the ECG connector.
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ENGLISH
Attach the chest electrodes to the locations
as following:
V1: Fourth inter-costal space at right border
of sternum.
V2: Fourth inter-costal space at left border
of sternum.
V3: Midway between V2 and V4.
V4: Fifth inter-costal space at left
mid-clavicular line.
V5: Left anterior axillary line at the horizontal
lever of V4.
V6: Left mid-axillary line at the horizontal
lever of V4.
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