Understanding of ECG leads

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Hello, im having difficulties in understanding what lead is what and to what angle of the heart it looks, i know lead II, III AND avF are inferior ( Is this correct ?) but what leads are anterior, inferior etc.

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Sorry didnt mean to repeat inferior i meant septal etc

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Specializes in CRNA.

Anterior I V2-V4 LAD

Lateral I AVL V5-6 circ

Inferior II III AVF RCA (most people)

Posterior V1 RCA (need a right sided ECG to be sure)

Septal V1-2 LAD

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Specializes in critical care,flight nursing.

http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/ecg_outline/lesson1/index.html

here a web site that could help you a little bit. but remember where the lead are place and in some case it can help you understand what it read. v1-v6 read the l ventricule and septal mostly( not to forget that the hearth is 3 dimension). avr read the right( that's what the r is for). avl the left (a gain the l). and guess what avf read... the foot ,so inferior axis in a way. lead 1,2,3 read the same way as a 3 lead monitoring. now you just have to remember the rule. if it come towards the electrode it is positive away negative. for example, avr is always negative cause the electricity move from sa node down and avr read.. right. but if you have a ventricular arythmia since the electricity would come from below in direction if the avr it will read... positive. there a little chart that the ena have in there market place that could help you. you may want to have a look at it.

http://www.ena.org/store/item.asp?item_id=381&department_id=26

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