Pot Luck
Vocab
The Leads
Placement Landmarks
Lookey, Lookey
100
This commonly causes a "wandering baseline"
What is patient taking a deep breath? (or loose limb connections, or inadequate gel on the sensor.)
100
Setting a machine to a standardized scale to allow comparison of the results.
What is calibration?
100
RA negative, LL positive, and RL ground
What is Lead II?
100
Placed at the 5th intercostal space at the midclavicular line.
What is V4?
100
Leads II, III, and aVF look at this.
What is the inferior wall?
200
Made by a heat reaction on chemically treated paper.
What is the ECG tracing?
200
Diminshes electrical activity that may be present in the environment that may interfere with the tracing.
What is the filter?
200
LA negative, LL positive, and RL ground
What is Lead III?
200
Located at the 4th intercostal space at the right sternal border.
What is V1?
200
Leads aVL, V5, and V6 look at this.
What is the lateral wall?
300
What the ECG technician does BEFORE touching the patient.
What is explain the procedure?
300
Additional electrical activity on an ECG tracing as a result of something other than electrical activity of the heart.
What is an artifact?
300
Leads which are bipolar and formed by Einthoven's Triangle.
What are the standard limb leads?
300
Located at the halfway point between V2 and V4.
What is V3?
300
Leads V1-V4 look at these.
What are the anterior and septal walls?
400
The usual speed of the standard ECG machine.
What is 25mm/second?
400
A device within the ECG machine which detects electrical currents and converts them into mechanical energy.
What is a galvanometer?
400
The augmented limb leads are this type, meaning use is made of a positive exploring sensor.
What is unipolar?
400
Located at the 4th intercostal space at the left sternal border.
What is V2?
400
V5 and V6 look at these.
What are the apical and low lateral walls?
500
Shortness of breath, chest pain, tightness, or fainting.
What are common reasons a doctor may order an ECG?
500
The needle of the ECG machine that forms a tracing on the graph paper.
What is a stylus?
500
RA negative, LA positive, and RL ground
What is Lead I?
500
Located at the level of V4 at the midaxillary line.
What is V6?
500
Look for one of these if your patient has a hairy chest.
What is a dry razor?
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