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Stephen McStay

Lecturer (Adult Nursing), Department of Nursing Midwifery and Healthcare, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University

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Recording a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG)

The ECG machine is a complex device that records the characteristic spread of electricity through the heart during each cardiac cycle (Davey, 2008). The 12-lead ECG machine has 10 cables, which attach...

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