Describe troubleshooting and maintenance of cardiac monitoring devices.
Description should include
- identifying recording errors
- improper tracing
- standardization mark out of range
- improper lead placement
- identifying causes of an artifact
- somatic tremor
- patient/client movement
- wandering baseline
- AC interference
- seizures
- accounting for patients/clients with special considerations
- clothing
- shunts
- piercings
- scars
- pacemaker/automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD)
- correcting artifacts and recording errors
- paper placement
- lead reversal
- power loss
- remove electronic devices
- calm the patient
- operating the ECG machine per manufacturer’s and facility’s policy.
Process/Skill Questions:
- How does one put paper in the ECG machine?
- How does one recognize a malfunction of the ECG machine?