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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