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Author Question: Your patient for a 12-lead EKG has artifact in II, III, and aVF. To reduce artifact, you check the patches (Read 192 times)

gbarreiro

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Question 1

On your sleeping patient's 12-lead EKG, Lead I's waves and complexes are extremely jittery—completely unreadable—as are aVR's. The most likely cause of this is
◦ heart is on the right side of the body instead of the left.
◦ patient has an arrhythmia.
◦ gain is set too low.
◦ right arm electrode or patch is loose or off.

Question 2

Your patient for a 12-lead EKG has artifact in II, III, and aVF. To reduce artifact, you check the patches
◦ on the right arm.
◦ at the 5th ICS, MCL.
◦ at the 4th ICS, LSB.
◦ on the left leg.


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