1、 The 12-Lead electrocardiogramLocation of the Heart The heart is located between the lungs behind the sternum and above the diaphragm.It is surrounded by the pericardium.Its size is about that of a fist,and its weight is about 250-300 g.Its center is located about 1.5 cm to the left of the midsagitt
2、al plane.Location of the heart in the thoraxAnatomy of the heart The walls of the heart are composed of cardiac muscle,called myocardium.It consists of four compartments:the right and left atria and ventriclesThe Heart Valves The tricuspid valve regulates blood flow between the right atrium and righ
3、t ventricle.The pulmonary valve controls blood flow from the right ventricle into the pulmonary arteries The mitral valve lets oxygen-rich blood from your lungs pass from the left atrium into the left ventricle.The aortic valve lets oxygen-rich blood pass from the left ventricle into the aorta,then
4、to the bodyBlood circulation via heart The blood returns from the systemic circulation to the right atrium and from there goes through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle.It is ejected from the right ventricle through the pulmonary valve to the lungs.Oxygenated blood returns from the lungs to
5、 the left atrium,and from there through the mitral valve to the left ventricle.Finally blood is pumped through the aortic valve to the aorta and the systemic circulation.Electrical activation of the heart In the heart muscle cell,or myocyte,electric activation takes place by means of the same mechan
6、ism as in the nerve cell,i.e.,from the inflow of Na ions across the cell membrane.The amplitude of the action potential is also similar,being 100 mV for both nerve and muscle.The duration of the cardiac impulse is,however,two orders of magnitude longer than in either nerve cell or sceletal muscle ce
7、ll.As in the nerve cell,repolarization is a consequence of the outflow of K ions.The duration of the action impulse is about 300 ms.Electrophysiology of the cardiac muscle cellMechanical contraction of Cardiac Muscle Associated with the electric activation of cardiac muscle cell is its mechanical co
8、ntraction,which occurs a little later.An important distinction between cardiac muscle tissue and skeletal muscle is that in cardiac muscle,activation can propagate from one cell to another in any direction.Electric and mechanical activity in(A)frog sartorius muscle cell,(B)frog cardiac muscle cell,(
9、C)rat uterus wall smooth muscle cell.The Conduction System Electrical signal begins in the sinoatrial(SA)node:natural pacemaker.causes the atria to contract.The signal then passes through the atrioventricular(AV)node.sends the signal to the ventricles via the“bundle of His”causes the ventricles to c
10、ontract.The Conduction SystemConduction on the Heart The sinoatrial node in humans is in the shape of a crescent and is about 15 mm long and 5 mm wide.The SA nodal cells are self-excitatory,pacemaker cells.They generate an action potential at the rate of about 70 per minute.From the sinus node,activ
11、ation propagates throughout the atria,but cannot propagate directly across the boundary between atria and ventricles.The atrioventricular node(AV node)is located at the boundary between the atria and ventricles;it has an intrinsic frequency of about 50 pulses/min.If the AV node is triggered with a h
12、igher pulse frequency,it follows this higher frequency.In a normal heart,the AV node provides the only conducting path from the atria to the ventricles.Propagation from the AV node to the ventricles is provided by a specialized conduction system.Proximally,this system is composed of a common bundle,
13、called the bundle of His(after German physician Wilhelm His,Jr.,1863-1934).More distally,it separates into two bundle branches propagating along each side of the septum,constituting the right and left bundle branches.(The left bundle subsequently divides into an anterior and posterior branch.)Even m
14、ore distally the bundles ramify into Purkinje fibers (named after Jan Evangelista Purkinje(Czech;1787-1869)that diverge to the inner sides of the ventricular walls.Propagation along the conduction system takes place at a relatively high speed once it is within the ventricular region,but prior to thi
15、s(through the AV node)the velocity is extremely slow.From the inner side of the ventricular wall,the many activation sites cause the formation of a wavefront which propagates through the ventricular mass toward the outer wall.This process results from cell-to-cell activation.After each ventricular m
16、uscle region has depolarized,repolarization occurs.Propagation on ventricular wallThe normal electrocardiogramElectrical events in the heartElectrophysiology of the heartDifferent waveforms for each of the specialized cellsIsochronic surfaces of the ventricular activation(From Durrer et al.,1970.)El
17、ectric field of the heart on the surface of the thorax,recorded by Augustus Waller(1887).The curves(a)and(b)represent the recorded positive and negative isopotential lines,respectively.These indicate that the heart is a dipolar source having the positive and negative poles at(A)and(B),respectively.T
18、he curves(c)represent the assumed current flow lines.Lead Vector The potential at point P due to any dipole p can be written as The vector c is the lead vector.Note that the value of the lead vector is a property of the lead and volume conductor and does not depend on the magnitude and direction of
19、the dipole p.zzyyxxpcpcpcpc Extending the concept of lead vector Unipolar lead:measuring the voltage relative to a remote reference.Bipolar lead:formed by a lead pair and is the voltage between any two points:pcpccVpcijjijiijii)(The 10 ECG leads of Waller.Einthoven limb leads(standard leads)and Eint
20、hoven triangle.The Einthoven triangle is an approximate description of the lead vectors associated with the limb leads.Limb leadsThe Einthoven limb leads(standard leads)are defined in the following way:Lead I:VI =L-R Lead II:VII =F R Lead III:VIII =F-L where VI=the voltage of Lead I VII =the voltage
21、 of Lead II VIII=the voltage of Lead III L=potential at the left arm R=potential at the right arm F =potential at the left footAccording to Kirchhoffs law these lead voltages have the following relationship:VI+VIII=VII hence only two of these three leads are independent.pcpcpcFFLLRRStandard lead vec
22、tors form an equilateral triangle00)()()(IIIIIIIIIIIIIIILFLFIIIIIRFRFIIIRLRLIcccVVVpcpccVpcpccVpcpccVLead voltages from lead vectors zyzyzyIIIzyzyzyIIyyIppaapaapVppaapaapVpapV87.05.02321)120sin()120cos(87.05.02321)60sin()60cos(The generation of the ECG signal in the Einthoven limb leads -IThe genera
23、tion of the ECG signal in the Einthoven limb leads -IIThe Wilson central terminal(CT)is formed by connecting a 5 k resistance to each limb electrode and interconnecting the free wires;the CT is the common point.The Wilson central terminal represents the average of the limb potentials.Because no curr
24、ent flows through a high-impedance voltmeter,Kirchhoffs law requires that IR+IL+IF=0.(A)The circuit of the Wilson central terminal(CT).(B)The location of the Wilson central terminal in the image space(CT).It is located in the center of the Einthoven triangle.Additional limb leads Three additional li
25、mb leads VR,VL,and VF are obtained by measuring the potential between each limb electrode and the Wilson central terminal.323232LRFCTLLLRFCTRRLRFCTFFVVVGoldberger Augmented leads Goldberger observed that the signals from the additional limb leads can be augmented by omitting that resistance from the
26、 Wilson central terminal which is connected to the measurement electrode.The aforementioned three leads may be replaced with a new set of lead that are called augmented leads because of augmentation of the signal.The augmented signal is 50%larger than the signal with the Wilson ventral terminal chos
27、en as reference.222222/LRFaVCTLLLRFaVCTRRLRFaVCTFFLFFVVV(A)The circuit of the Goldberger augmented leads.(B)The location of the Goldberger augmented lead vectors in the image space.Precordial Leads For measuring the potentials close to the heart,Wilson introduced the precordial leads(chest leads)in
28、1944.These leads,V1-V6 are located over the left chest as described in the figure.The 12-Lead System The most commonly used clinical ECG-system,the 12-lead ECg system,consists of the following 12 leads,which are:654321,VVVVVVaVaVaVIIIIIIFLRThe projections of the lead vectors of the 12-lead ECG system in three orthogonal planes(when one assumes the volume conductor to be spherical homogeneous and the cardiac source centrally located).
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