ECG electrode pad

Claim 1

A precordial ECG electrode pad comprising: (a) a flexible nonconductive body having a fixed precordial configuration; (b) six conductive discs plated on said flexible nonconductive body and etched to a predetermined pattern effective for precordial ECG disc placement, two of said six discs having fixed locations for equidistant placement on opposite sides of a patient's sternum; (c) the four remaining ECG discs fixedly positioned on said flexible nonconductive body at predetermined locations relative to said two discs for anatomically correct placement for sensing precordial ECG signals from said patient's body at locations corresponding to a first location at a fifth intercostal space along the mid-clavicular line, to a second location about mid-way between said first location and an adjacent one of said two discs, to a third location on an anterior axillary line; and to a fourth location on a mid-axillary line, said first, third, and fourth locations generally defining a horizontal plane; and (d) conductor means on said nonconductive body for separately connecting each of said discs to ECG recording or monitoring means.