in the pad conduction conduits or wires not shown made of x ray transparent metal coated carbon fiber such as produced by amoco performance products inc of atlanta ga and more specifically described in u s pat no 3 677 705 or conductive channels of graphite filled polyvinyl chloride film known as u201c conduction u201d and available from burkhardt freeman holyoke mass or from prime label and screen inc of new berlin wis are used to connect each of the electrodes to a connection point 64 on the template 50 external wires are connected to the internal conduction conduits not shown by conductive tabs 64 it is contemplated that a variety of adaptors between the conductor tab 64 and the major pre hospital and in hospital cardiac monitor units available today would be part of a kit that includes this ecg electrode template 50 the ecg template 50 is quickly and correctly located on the chest 11 of a patient as shown in fig3 by placing the top of the tab 52 at the supra sternal notch 27 and the left most precordial electrode 39 on the vertical mid axillary line 29 which drops straight down from the shoulder once these two points are located the entire template 50 is smoothed across the chest of the patient on its left and right side thereby completely locating all ten electrodes in acute response situations where a patient is in great difficulty it sometimes becomes necessary to defibrillate the patient the monitoring electrodes on a patient 39 s chest would have to be removed before defibrillation the alternate embodiment of the template 54 shown in fig4.