The Electrocardiogram is a diagnostic test which produces a record of the overall spread of electrical activity through the heart. Electrical currents generated by your cardiac muscles spread into the tissues surrounding the heart and are conducted through your bodily fluids. An electrocardiogram uses recording electrodes to record the small portion of this electrical activity that reaches your body’s surface.
How to Prepare
Avoid applying lotion and skin creams on the day of the test as they may prevent the electrodes from sticking. Before your visit to our Vancouver Diagnostics Centre, your patient advisor will guide you and provide you with all the information you need to prepare for your Electrocardiogram.
What to Expect
During the exam, 12 recording electrodes will be placed on your chest in positions surrounding your heart. These electrodes are connected to the electrocardiogram machine. Your diagnostic technician will then review your electrocardiogram on a computer screen and print it out once they are happy with the quality of the test. The procedure takes a total of only 15 minutes.
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We have been reseraching looking for answers to see if this treatment could be harming to ones heart…Our son has Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy and it has of course effected his heart and he has severe cardiomyopathy & a recent ICD….This explains what the machine does …. The electrodes are placed strategically, based on acupuncture points, reflexology points, acupressure points and free nerve endings. The machine is designed to effect nerves, not muscles.
Muscle cells contract based upon signals from A-alpha nerve fibers. To activate the A alpha nerve fibers requires a signal greater than 2500 Hertz. The VECTTOR utilizes 1500 and 2500 Hertz and therefore does not activate the A-alpha nerve fibers.
When the machine is in use, the amount of stimulation is kept very low, so as not even to be felt by the patient.
Patienst with Duchennes have been using this and noticing an increase in strength and circulation but no one has been doing any testing or watching on the heart…We’ve recently learned how much more their is involved in ones heart and the workings and the electrical stimulation concerns me…