Quick-release self-contained medical electrode

A method of attaching a medical electrode unit to a patient's skin and subsequently removing said medical electrode unit therefrom, comprising the steps of:

• forming a medical electrode including:
• an electrically conductive hydrogel adhesive layer,
• a non-conductive mesh grid formed with filaments and positioned underneath said adhesive layer, and interpenetrated by said electrically conductive hydrogel adhesive layer, and adapted to be in contact with a patient's skin to maintain said medical electrode unit thereat, thus forming an adhesive skin interface,
• a predetermined amount of adhesive remover solvent,
• at least one impermeable envelope embedded via radiation in the intermixture of said adhesive layer and the filaments of said mesh grid, said impermeable envelope substantially completely surrounding said adhesive remover solvent therein, wherein said impermeable envelope has a portion exposed through said electrically conductive adhesive layer at a site thereof opposite to said adhesive-skin interface, and
• at least one protecting member removably covering said exposed portion of said at least one impermeable envelope;
• attaching said medical electrode to the patient's skin with said adhesive layer in direct communication with the patient's skin;
• and
• removing said medical electrode from the patient's skin by performing the steps of:
• displacing said at least one protecting member from said exposed portion of said at least one impermeable envelope, and
• applying a force to said exposed portion of said at least one impermeable envelope sufficient to break the same, thereby releasing said adhesive remover solvent directly to said adhesive layer at the adhesive-skin interface for neutralizing said adhesive.