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Iodine-impregnated drapes enable recording of precordial electrocardiogram
Y Mochizuki1, Y Okamura, H Iida
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Shimotsugagun, Tochigi, Japan. mochi@dokkyomed.ac.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 13, 1999
Abstract:
Although we believed that the use of a polyester film drape for primary elective open sternum with delayed sternal closure made it impossible to record precordial electrocardiograms on the drape, we confirmed that it is possible to record electrocardiograms on an iodine-impregnated drape due to the iodine anion electrical conductibility.