In Ambulance, telemetri or ECG

[LNUstudent]

Have had a field day, in the ambulance and afterwords written a paper. Now Im confused, my patient case had ECG or telemetri conection, the problem I have is that the ambulance had 4 led ECG (3 points and one ground) not a full 12 led ECG. is it still called ECG or just telemetri overwatch? (the ambulance have the capability to send somthing called ambulance ECG to the Emergency department and intensive care unit).

Thanks

Jochen

[sailornurse]

Telemetry is an engineering term referring to signals relayed usually through a wireless system using antennas to a monitor/screen. This is the same as opening a garage door with a remote control. In medicine, we call telemetry when referring to ekgs signals sent to a monitor from the telemetry pack attached to a patient. One confusing terminology is that the wires that are attached to a patient are also referred to as "leads" & leads are also used to refer to the number of views that one can see of the heart as in "12 lead ekgs". I am having a little trouble with your grammar & miss spellings. One lead or view as in Lead II, is typically an ekg tracing or strip.