Short answer: You place all three limb leads (LA, RA, LL) in…
Short answer: You place all three limb leads (LA, RA, LL) in a triangle within 2 inches of each other on the anterior aspect of the left shoulder. Describe in your own words what the ECG should look like. Could you use that as a diagnostic waveform? Why or why not? (Assume a perfectly healthy patient, normal conduction system, and healthy myocardium) (Hint: Is that configuration within Einthoven’s triangle)
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You are monitoring in lead II. Your patient just went into 3rd-degree heart block. They have a 4-second ventricular pause and you see regular p waves but no ventricular waves (for those 4 seconds). You are also seeing an atrial T wave. Describe what this normally hidden waveform looks like and why it looks that way.
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