{"id":9,"date":"2008-09-25T11:43:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T11:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=9"},"modified":"2024-01-31T06:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:38:10","slug":"electrocardiogram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/electrocardiogram\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrocardiogram &#8211; ECG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S3jy9vl7Tos?si=B5x4mOGFT6cHuuXU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"postcontent\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Electrocardiogram &#8211; ECG<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"txtd\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word;\">The modern electrocardiograph was invented by <strong>Willem Einthoven<\/strong> in 1903. An electrocardiograph records the electrical activity of the heart from the surface of the body and the recording is known as an electrocardiogram or ECG in short. It is one of the simplest and widely available investigations to assess the heart. ECG is an important part of cardiac evaluation, especially in the emergency room when the patient presents with chest pain. In spite of the availability of many modern high tech investigations, the role of a simple ECG in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction or heart attack still holds good.<\/p>\n<p id=\"txtd_1621390\" class=\"txtd\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word;\">Standard 12 lead ECG consists of 6 chest leads, 3 conventional limb leads and 3 augmented limb leads. Ideally electrocardiographic data from all the 12 leads should be simultaneously acquired to be called as a 12 lead ECG. Some electrocardiographs acquire 3 channels simultaneously while still others record leads sequentially in a single channel. The advantage of simultaneous multichannel acquisition is that any beat can be analysed in all the channels. This makes analysis of complex arrhythmias or abnormal rhythm of the heart easier.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Standard limb leads<\/em><\/strong> are: Lead I with left arm positive, right arm negative, Lead II with left foot positive, right arm negative and Lead III with left foot positive, left arm negative. Augmented limb leads are aVR, aVL and aVF. In augmented leads, the positive pole is the index limb while the negative terminal is derived from the other two limbs. The positive pole of aVR is the right arm, that of aVL is left arm and that of aVF the left foot. Right foot is connected the indifferent electrode during all electrocardiographic recordings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/professional\/ecg-chest-lead-positions\/\"><em>Chest lead positions<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>are available here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electrocardiograph records the electrical activity of the heart from the surface of the body and the recording is known as an electrocardiogram (ECG). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecg-electrophysiology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Electrocardiogram - ECG - Simple test for the heart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An electrocardiograph records the electrical activity of the heart from the surface of the body and the recording is known as an electrocardiogram (ECG).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/electrocardiogram\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Electrocardiogram - ECG - Simple test for the heart\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An electrocardiograph records the electrical activity of the heart from the surface of the body and the recording is known as an electrocardiogram (ECG).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/electrocardiogram\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-09-25T11:43:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-31T00:38:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Johnson Francis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Johnson Francis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johnsonfrancis.org\\\/professional\\\/electrocardiogram\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johnsonfrancis.org\\\/professional\\\/electrocardiogram\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Johnson Francis\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johnsonfrancis.org\\\/professional\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5441d907049b914770f4bd98fb57feec\"},\"headline\":\"Electrocardiogram &#8211; 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