Electric
What is atrial depolarization?
What does the P wave represent?
what does NSR look like?
What is a rate of 60-100 w/ PQRST present?
What lab indicates cardiac ischemia/stress?
What is troponin
What is an MI?
What is an imbalance in myocardial oxygen supply and demand
emergency tx for MI
MONA
What is Ventricular depolarization?
What does the QRS represent?
What differentiates A-fib and A-flutter?
What is the sawtooth pattern
LDL
What is the cholesterol that we want to see low?
What is the difference between STEMI and NSTEMI?
What is ST elevation
What is the first line treatment of angina?
What is nitroglycerin and aspirin
What does the QRS tell us?
How the ventricles are responding - wide = slow, narrow = normal
SVT generally has a rate >?
What is 160
This normal level is 3.5-5
What is Potassium?
What change on an EKG shows an MI?
What is ST elevation in 2 leads
What is the goal of angina treatment?
What is to promote cardiac perfusion
How does electricity move through the heart?
What is beginning in the SA node, then to the AV node, and then the Perkinje fibers, and into the R and L bundle branches
Why is Vtach an unstable rhythm?
What is lack of diastolic filling (preload)
the norm for this is 50-%-70%
What is Ejection Fraction?
How do women’s cardiac symptoms often differ from men?
What is N/V/flu like Sx
What is CABG?
What is a coronary artery bypass graft
What indicates cardiac ischemia?
What does an inverted T wave indicate?
What are the 5 questions of EKG interpretation?
Is there a PQRST? Does every P wave have a QRS? Does every QRS have a P wave? Is the PR interval .20 or less? Is the QRS less than .08 or less
this lab will be elevated with HF
What is BNP?
the vein used most often in CABG
What is the saphenous vein?
What do thrombolytics do?
What is dissolve clots