Management of ACS for the ALS Provider

Limb Wire Placement

Limb leads view the heart in a frontal plane.  This provides information about the current flowing both up and down and right to left within the heart.  There are many mnemonics that providers use to remember lead placement.

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White Right (Patient’s Right)
“Smoke over Fire”
or
Red to ribs and Black is what is Left Over.
Green towards the Gallbladder…