The following paper was initiated by many concerns of the
Cardiological community in the UK that ECGs are being
inappropriately recorded by a wide variety of people.
Prof. Macfarlane and Dr. Coleman undertook the work in the paper
to demonstrate that ECGs recorded from incorrect electrode
positions can affect the outcome of the recording.
The SCST have reproduced the paper on this website as an aid to all recorders of ECGs.
The quality of the ECG tracings and other images is not of the highest quality. This is known and we are trying to improve these images. Some it will be appreciated, are antiquities, and cannot be improved.
This paper first appeared in SCST Update Vol 2 Numbers 2 and 6 (February 1995 and June 1995) and was presented by Prof Macfarlane at the Spring meeting of the SCST in 1995
Since this was published here as a webpage the author has drawn to our attention that one of the images (Fig 4) has been transposed left to right. This technical error has now (2/11/01) been solved.
ŠSCST 1995