Name the Rhythm
A BPM of over 100
What is tachycardia?
These symptoms related to arrhythmias prompt a medical emergency.
What is chest pain, shortness of breath, loss of consciousness?
This medicine reduces the heart's affinity for adrenaline and thus can slow the heart rate and reduce blood pressure.
What is a Beta-blocker?
Define arrhythmia.
What is an irregular or abnormal heartbeat?
This component of the heart slows conduction to allow for ventricular filling.
What is the atrioventricular (AV) node?
A BPM of less than 60
What is bradycardia?
This arrhythmia often causes a dramatic drop in blood pressure
What is Ventricular Fibrillation?
This device, often used to correct slow heartbeats, involves a procedure that places the device in the chest to stimulate the heart.
What is a pacemaker?
This test uses sound waves to take an image of a beating heart.
What is an echocardiogram?
This ventricle of the heart pumps blood through the aorta and out to the systemic circuit
What is the left ventricle?
This arrhythmia, caused by quick and irregular electrical signals in the inferior chambers, doesn't allow for proper ventricular filling and can be dangerous for those with heart disease.
What is Ventricular Tachycardia?
This condition can cause left ventricular hypertrophy, which often changes how conduction signals of the heart travel, and can lead to arrhythmias.
What is Hypertension (high blood pressure)?
This method of treatment, not a medicine or surgery, is characterized by patches or paddles on the chest that produce electrical signals to help 'reset' heart rhythm.
What is cardioversion?
In terms of preventive treatment, these two methods are lifestyle changes that can offer benefits to the heart at all stages of life.
What is a healthy diet and regular exercise?
This valve of the heart allows blood to flow from the right atrium to the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This arrhythmia, related to strokes, is characterized by a rapid, uncoordinated heartbeat and is caused by the superior heart chambers.
What is Atrial Fibrillation (AFIb)?
One of the biggest risk factors for arrhythmia has to do with blockages of arteries on the heart itself.
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
This procedure places a catheter into blood vessels of the heart to block irregular heart signals.
Catheter Ablation
This component of an ECG reading measures the time between heartbeats and directly reflects heart rate.
What is the R-R interval?
This natural 'pacemaker' of the heart creates the heartbeat before it passes to the atrioventricular (AV) node.
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
This arrhythmia, caused by the chaotic contractions of the inferior chambers, can lead to death if a regular heartbeat is not restored within minutes.
What is Ventricular Fibrillation (VFib)?
This condition, not often occurring when we are awake, can lead to a slow or irregular heartbeat, even atrial fibrillation.
What is obstructive sleep apnea?
Because heart signals can't pass through scar tissue, this procedure creates small cuts in the heart tissue, which slows down quick heartbeats and stops irregular ones.
What is the Maze Procedure?
This device, used to track heartbeat over 24 hours or more, is best for people with an intermittent arrhythmia that may not be present on a resting ECG.
What is the Holter Monitor?
These fibers of the conduction system stimulate the ventricles to contract.
What are Purkinje fibers?