Friday, 13 June 2014

Single Channel ECG

Electrocardiographs are used for the detection of the electrical signals that are associated with the cardiac activities and for the production of ECG or Electrocardiograms. ECG is basically a graphic record of all the voltage versus the time. ECG or EKG is used for the detection, diagnosis and assisting in the treatment of some types of the heart diseases and also for the arrhythmias for the determination of the patient’s response to the drug therapy and for revealing all the trends and the changes in the functions of the heart. Different kind of ECG channels has been in use by different physicians, but most of them have been using the single channel ECG for getting the accurate results of the hearts. The single channel ECG have been recording the heart signals from only one lead that makes it really very easy for the doctors to detect what kind of heart problem the patient is actually suffering from.

Some of these single channel ECG can also perform the automatic functioning, measurement and interpretation of the ECG as one of the most selectable and optional feature. This has been a great help for all the cardiologists working with the single channel ECG. The single channel ECG consists of the ECG units, cables and the electrodes. These single channel ECG have got the following features usually:

• A 12 lead system including three different types of leads that are bipolar, unipolar and precordial.

• The 12 leads presenting different kind of perspectives of the electrical activities of the heart.

• Produces ECG waveforms in which all the P waves, T waves and QRS complex vary in the amplitude and polarity.
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