Anatomy and Physiology
What is valves?
The heart has ___ chambers.
What is 4?
The primary pacemaker of the heart.
What is the SA node?
The first EKG was called.
What is the galvanometer?
The general term for an abnormal heart rhythm.
What is a dysrhythmia?
Blood flows through the right atrium to the right ventricle through this valve.
What is the tricuspid valve?
The P wave represents.
What is atrial depolarization?
One small square on an EKG graph paper represents.
What is 0.04 seconds
The term for multiple PVCs that are identical within the same tracing.
What is unifocal?
The bicuspid valve is also called.
What is the mitral valve?
This body system controls involuntary actions.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The small wave that appears between the T wave and the P wave.
What is the U wave?
The speed of the EKG paper.
The term used to describe identical EKG features.
What is monomorphic?
This separates the right and left ventricles.
What is intraventricular septum?
Blood flows from the right ventricle through the pulmonary valve, to the pulmonary arteries, to the lungs then returns to the heart through this structure.
What is pulmonary veins?
The inherent heart rate for the AV node.
What is 40-60 bpm?
This adjusts the sensitivity of an EKG machine.
What is gain control?
Heart blocks are caused by conduction problems between the ______ and _______.
What is the AV node and the AV junction?
Blood on the left side of the heart is _______ blood.
What is deoxygenated blood?
Describes the condition where the heart is unable to pump blood well leading up to a buildup of fluid in the body.
What is congestive heart failure?
The term used to describe a pacemaker site outside the SA node.
What is an ectopic pacemaker?
An EKG artifact that occurs when the signal is compromised by a fray or faulty lead wire.
What is a broken recording?
Three premature ventricular complexes in a row as part of a rhythm with no P wave, a QRS duration greater than 0.10 seconds, and a rate of 100-200 beats per minute.
What is a run of ventricular tachycardia?