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EKG Vocabulary
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100
This wave typically comes first in an EKG. It is typically a small wave before the QRS

What is the P wave?

100

A small box on the EKG represents this many seconds.

What is 0.04 seconds?

100

This is the preferred pacemaker of the heart

What is the sinus node?

100

This term is for an abnormal Heart Rhythm

What is arrhythmia?

100

Name at least two state capitals that begin with the letter "a"

Note-There are more

What is 

Atlanta, Georgia

Austin, Texas

Annapolis, Maryland

Augusta, Maine

200

This wave typically represents ventricular depolarization.

What is the QRS?

200

A large box on the EKG represents this many seconds

What is 0.20 seconds?
200

This pacemaker of the heart has an inherent rate of 20-40 bpm

What is the ventricles or purkinje fibers?

200

This is the the technical term for power used when measuring vertically on the EKG that begins with the letter "a"

What is amplitude?
200
This is the number of bones in the adult human body

What is 206?

300

This wave represents late ventricular repolarization. 

What is the u wave?

300

How many small blocks are in a minute?

What is 1500?

300

What does repolarization go with mechanically?

What is relaxation?

300

This is the term for the normal pacemaker of the heart

What is a pacemaker?

300

This is the element on the periodic table represent by "hg"

What is mercury?

400

This wave represents Atrial Repolarization and it typically hides.

What is the Ta wave?

400

How many big block in a minute?

What is 300 big blocks?

400

When a lower pacemaker takes over because the upper pacemaker has stopped or slowed is called this

What is escape?

400

This is the term for a flat line between waves and complexes on the EKG

What is a segment?
400

This is the year Disney World in Florida opened 

What is 1971?

500

The P-QRS-T typically represents one of these.

What is a heartbeat?

500

The measurement for a 1/2 a small block is.

What is 0.02 seconds?

500

This is the intrinsic rate of the AV junction

What is 40-60 bpm?

500

This is the phase of the cardiac cycle when the ventricles fill with blood

What is diastole?

500

This is the state that Stranger Things takes place in.  It is a fictional town in this state

What is Hawkins, Indiana?

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