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[[Image:einthECG1.png|thumb|ECG from Eindhoven's first publication. ''Pfügers Archiv March 1895, page 101-123'']] | [[Image:einthECG1.png|thumb|ECG from Eindhoven's first publication. ''Pfügers Archiv March 1895, page 101-123'']] | ||
[[Image:stringgalvanometer.jpg|thumb|Einthoven's string-galvanometer, now in the Science Museum in Londen. The patient had to put his hands in salt baths to which the electrodes were connected. ''Image from the [http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/aboutus/history_center/conferences/che2004/Landman.pdf IEEE history society]''.]] | [[Image:stringgalvanometer.jpg|thumb|Einthoven's string-galvanometer, now in the Science Museum in Londen. The patient had to put his hands in salt baths to which the electrodes were connected. ''Image from the [http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/aboutus/history_center/conferences/che2004/Landman.pdf IEEE history society]''.]] | ||
The history of the ECG goes back more than one and a half century | The history of the ECG goes back more than one and a half century | ||
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In '''1887''' the English physiologist Augustus D. Waller from Londen published the first human electrocardiogram. He used a capillar-electrometer. <cite>Waller</cite><cite>Waller2</cite> | In '''1887''' the English physiologist Augustus D. Waller from Londen published the first human electrocardiogram. He used a capillar-electrometer. <cite>Waller</cite><cite>Waller2</cite> | ||
[[w:Einthoven|The dutchman Willem Einthoven]] (1860-1927) introduced in 1893 the term 'electrocardiogram'. He described in '''1895''' how he used a galvanometer to visualize the electrical activity of the heart. In 1924 he received the Nobelprize for his work on the ECG. He connected electrodes to a patienta showed the electrical difference between two electrodes on the galvanometer. We still now use the term: Einthovens'leads. The string galvanometer (see Image) was the first clinical instrument on the recording of an ECG. | [[w:Einthoven|The dutchman Willem Einthoven]] (1860-1927) introduced in 1893 the term 'electrocardiogram'. He described in '''1895''' how he used a galvanometer to visualize the electrical activity of the heart. In 1924 he received the Nobelprize for his work on the ECG. He connected electrodes to a patienta showed the electrical difference between two electrodes on the galvanometer. We still now use the term: Einthovens'leads. The string galvanometer (see Image) was the first clinical instrument on the recording of an ECG. | ||
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==1900-1950== | |||
In 1905 Einthoven recorded the first 'telecardiogram' from the hospital to his laboratoy 1.5 km away. | In 1905 Einthoven recorded the first 'telecardiogram' from the hospital to his laboratoy 1.5 km away. | ||
In 1906 Einthoven published the first article in which he described a series of abnormal ECGs: left- and right bundlebranchblock, left- and right atrialdilatation, the U wave, notching of the QRS complex, ventricular extrasystoles, bigemini, atrialflutter and total AV block. <cite>Einthoven</cite> | In 1906 Einthoven published the first article in which he described a series of abnormal ECGs: left- and right bundlebranchblock, left- and right atrialdilatation, the U wave, notching of the QRS complex, ventricular extrasystoles, bigemini, atrialflutter and total AV block. <cite>Einthoven</cite> | ||
==1950-2000== | ==1950-2000== | ||
==2000-== | ==2000-== | ||
[[Image:modern_ecg.jpg|thumb|The last generation of ECG equipment. Image courtesy of [http://www.gehealthcare.com/euen/cardiology/ General Electric]]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<biblio> | <biblio> | ||