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Einthoven's Triangle Transparency: A Practical Method to Explain Limb Lead Configuration Following Single Lead Misplacements
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Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2010, 11(1), 33–38;
https://doi.org/10.3909/ricm0506
Published: 30 March 2010
Abstract
Limb lead switches remain a significant source of electrocardiographic error that may lead to faulty diagnosis and improper clinical action. Methods to identify such errors have been the subject of many prior publications. A brief review of the mathematical derivation of the limb lead system is presented here, together with an additional method to help understand limb lead reversals using a transparency of the Einthoven's triangle.
Keywords
Einthoven triangle
Electrocardiogram
Lead reversal