Yeah, those are the ones, with the rubber suction bulbs, and you had to
hand-write all the leads on to the strip of paper as you went along. And in
those days ECG recording was considered a medical task, not nursing.
Nightmare!
AF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Deborah Vecht" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: Resus Guidelines 2005
> Adrian Fogarty <[log in to unmask]>typed
>
>
>> You remember those "12-lead" ECGs where there was only actually 1 lead,
>> which you moved from position to position across the chest while you
>> changed
>> channel on the machine, recording a few seconds of strip each time? Five
>> minutes later you had a long strip of all 12 leads, with one end so
>> far from
>> the other it was a challenge to discern any pattern. Folks these days
>> don't
>> know they're born.
>
>> Then again, they didn't have 98% targets to worry about either...
>
> Indeed. I remember doing those, when the nurses wouldn't/couldn't.
>
> Remember the electrodes whose contact was enhanced by soap and water and
> that lovely rubber suction bulb that filled with inspissated
> soap/hair/electrode jelly...
>
> Those were the days...
>
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> Helen D. Vecht: [log in to unmask]
> Edgware.
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