ECG without bra?

My wife and daughters say that they always keep their bra on

Bras especially under-wired bras can interfere with electrical conductive and thus interfere with the recording of an ECG, as a result women are generally asked to remove their bras. For those actually try to record an ECG when there is interference will recognized and understand what I'm referring too, even with the use of the electronic filters (which are pretty much useless).

We perform 12 leads on a regular basis and mostly in potentially life threatening circumstance, so speed, accuracy, diagnosis and treatment is of the utmost importance, so all bras are asked to be removed. For the most parts patients are in gowns so some modesty is maintained, also the option for a female nurse is given ( I'm male).

Apollo with regards to diamorphine, yes it is used in terminal care, but also a lot on cardiac units for cardiac pain, it is the most effective drug with regards to cardiac pain, 2.5 to 5 mg IV is very very effective. Patients often arrest because of the pain so the quicker you can relieve this the grater chance they won't arrest. You would be surprised at the amount of Ventricular Ectopics that you observe with cardiac pain ( so R on T is a real possibility, for a Ventricular Fibrillation arrest).

I had one last week . I was asked to remove my bra .

It's a standard of medical practice. If you're NOT, they're taking shortcuts with your health,

Was unfortunately at the ER just this past weekend with racing heart and trouble breathing. Had an EKG with my sports bra on, though it did have to come off for the x-ray even though it had no underwire. I also used to be an EMT and we'd do an EKG all the time on patients and never had them remove their clothing.

Once again.... There's a difference between an EKG for rate and rhythm (usually lead 2) and a 12 lead. If you had between 3 and 5 pasties, you didn't have a 12 lead.

I always perform ECG braless

I had my first experience with this 2 years ago when I experienced nasty chest pain that turned out to be acid reflux but nevertheless went to see a cardiologist. He had his female assistant do an EKG for which I had to remove my blouse and bra and lie down on the exam table for her to attach a number of leads. I was semi nude for this until the test was done. It was over in a matter of minutes. I then was able to put my bra and blouse back on. When he came in to review the test and listen to my heart, I only had to unbutton.

I had my first at 15, when I was in a psych ward. Two technicians had me remove my shirt, but keep my bra on.

My second at 21 was also with a bra on. I still wish it were the opposite on both those occasions

From an electronics standpoint, I would want to know where the wires are, what they are made out of and what they are encased in. My gut feeling is the effect is pretty negligible, unless you have bare wires in direct contact with your skin, or the cloth around the wires is saturated with sweat.

That brings up another point, do you ever wipe the sweat off of a person if the have sweat on them. I would imagine that sweat is a pretty good conductor.

It's absolutely necessary to wipe the chest off so that the stick on electrodes don't slip off or out of position. When the patient is in cardigenic shock this can be difficult. As an aside, sweating must always be a danger signal as it can't be faked and is a sign of sympathetic nervous system overload. The limb leads are secured with rubber straps usually so they aren't as much of a problem. The leads are copper wire wrapped in standard vinyl or rubber insulation. As I said previously the bra must always be removed.

It's absolutely necessary to wipe the chest off so that the stick on electrodes don't slip off or out of position. . . . . As I said previously the bra must always be removed.

My husband is a hairy beast, and when he has his "executive physicals" he comes home having what looks like half his chest shaved for all those electrodes. When we have sex afterward, I have to be sitting on top of him because his chest hair stubble is really sharp, but that's OK because we both like that position!

Bras MUST come off--for the EKG's that is.

I get the same at my biannual work physical, the shaved spots on my chest always makes my wife laugh.

Plus of course there's the bonus that it stays that way for a little while, making it easy when we're in bed together to direct the topic of conversation back to the exam itself :-)

Just Shy, you never shared the end of your trip to the ER...

Everything ok?

I recently had my visa physical, and it was done with bra off.

My husband is a hairy beast, and when he has his "executive physicals" he comes home having what looks like half his chest shaved for all those electrodes.

Their biggest challenge during my physicals is getting those electrodes to stick. They usually wind up shaving my chest. The worst was when I had to be evaluated before using my company's gym (which i never wound up using, most of my chest hair wound up getting shaved off. The worst part about that was, with all that hair gone, it made my man breasts look huge & ugly.

Fortunately, my chest hair can provide some cover.

Last week I had a couple of incidents where I passed out and was taken to hospital by ambulance . Whilst in the house they did a 4-lead ECG . I had my bra on at that point . Once I arrived at the hospital I was given a gown to change into and both times was asked to remove my bra and just leave my knickers on.

I was given a 12 lead ECG both times . The first time it was a female nurse . The second time a male nurse . At no point was I offered a chaperone . I didn't feel uncomfortable either , he just had a job to do . He just pulled the gown down to my belly button level , attatched the sticky dots and leads then lay the gown over the top whilst he got his print out .

Nikki

When my friend had hers she was topless.

My wife recently went for one and she took her bra off before the sensors were applied. nurse covered her w/ a gown. Dr proceeded to remove the gown to listen to her heart.

Bra off

My bra was on twice for one in ER and in the hospital without. I know that bras should be off but I don't know why a lot of ER's aren't practicing.

The couple of times i have had an ecg, my bra was off and i was totally topless, my DD breasts hanging out for all to see. My heart was racing because of it!

My wife's had a couple and has always had to remove her bra. On both occasions the nurse has lifted her left breast to place the leads underneath.

I have had many done, and always without a bra.

The couple of times i have had an ecg, my bra was off and i was totally topless, my DD breasts hanging out for all to see. My heart was racing because of it!

There is something hot about the descriptive excitement when becoming or being exposed that comes with the already hot idea of exposure that gets me excited.

Cindy, hopefully your heart was racing with a joy excitement. And that it gave you a rush. Which would kinda give me a rush knowing that or at least thinking it.

Just out of hospital after an heart attack and everyone of my ECG was topless

I had my first ECG a few months ago and I had to remove my shirt and bra. I'm a shy person and when she told me I had to remove my shirt and bra, I was like "pardon me?" Lol. I was given a paper like blanket to cover my chest and belly as it was more for my privacy when she entered the room, but for the exam part I was told to remove the paper. It was an awkward 7 minutes of just laying there with everything exposed but it wasn't anything horrible haha

Saw my mom have an ecg. She took off her bra and shirt.

I had to take mine off

I just had one. Female tech, took bra off, kept top on, she barely lifted my shirt. ?