Module 3: EKG Equipment & Lead Placement — ECG Academy

Learn how telemetry equipment, electrode setup, and lead selection shape the tracing on your screen. Focus on signal quality, lead-view logic, and when to ask bedside staff to verify setup.

Lessons

• EKG Machine Components — The equipment you will use every day: monitoring systems, lead configurations, and alarm levels.
• Patient Preparation & Skin Prep — Why skin prep matters for signal quality — and how to recognize prep problems from the central stati
• Limb Lead Placement — How limb-electrode setup determines the six frontal-plane views you monitor, why Lead II is the defa
• Precordial Lead Placement — Understand chest lead positions, recognize setup errors that distort tracings, and learn why V1 is a
• Choosing the Monitoring View — Lead II is the default, V1 is a common problem-solving view, and a clean strip still has to be the r
• Artifact Recognition & Troubleshooting — Five artifact types, a 4-step troubleshooting approach, and the cardinal rule: check the patient fir