Heart Electrical System
Made up of structures that produce and conduct electricity in the heart.
What is the cardiac conduction system?
Blood.
Flows throughout the body delivering O2 and Nutrition.
The top of the heart.
Where is the base located?
Homeostasis
What is the body's natural balance and state?
EKG Lead Wires
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What are the wires that connect to the EKG machine?
SA Nodes, Bachmann's Bundles, Internodal Tract, AV Node, Bundle of his, Left-Right Bundle branches, Punkinje fibers
What are the electrical system structures of the heart?
An organ that simultaneously pumps 2 functions.
What is a double-pump organ?
The apex.
What is the tip of the heart called
Scope of practice.
What are the legally allowed duties of an EKG Tech?
T/F An EKG Tech is allowed to discuss and diagnose a patient.
False.
Read on an EKG
What is the Heart's electrical activity?
Aorta
What is the largest artery in the body?
The septum
What separated the chambers of the heart?
Standard anatomical position.
What is the patient pose/position that is universally recognized in the health care field?
The graphed results of an EKG.
What are Tracings?
Where electrical pulses are separated into the left and right Bundle Branches.
What is the Bundle of His?
Brings blood from the body to the heart.
What are the superior and inferior Vena Cava?
The 3 layers of the heart
What are the myocardium, pericardium, and endocardium?
Midline.
What is the vertical imaginary line splitting the body vertically and symmetrically?
Transcribes electrical impulses of the heart to readable lines.
What does an EKG Machine do?
The SA node.
Where is the electrical impulse generated?
Carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs
What is the Pulmonary artery
The 4 heart valves in order.
Tricuspid valve, Pulmonary Valve, Bicuspid/Mitral Valve, and Aortic valve.
Deoxygenated.
What is the blood going into to the heart called?
EKG Function.
What is the Electrocardiogram is a diagnostic instrument that produces a recording of the heart's electrical activity?