The nurse caring for patients with cardiac monitoring understands that when an electrical signal is aimed directly at the positive electrode,the inflection will be:

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When an electrical signal is aimed directly at the positive electrode,an upright inflection is visualized.If the impulse is going away from the positive electrode,a negative deflection is seen; and if the signal is perpendicular to the imaginary line between the positive and negative poles of the lead,the tracing is equiphasic,with equally positive and negative deflection.

The Nurse Caring for Patients with Cardiac Monitoring Understands That