Wave associated with Ventricular contraction
What is the QRS Complex?
What is Normal Sinus Rhythm?
The process by which a graphic pattern is created to reflect the electrical impulses generated by the heart as it pumps
What is Electrocardiography?
The tracing made by an electrocardiograph
What is the Electrocardiogram?
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib)
Quivering or chaotic muscle contractions of the heart
What is Fibrillation?
What is Bradycardia?
An instrument that measures and displays the waves of electrical impulses responsible for the cardiac cycle
What is a Electrocardiograph?
For analysis, a strip of this much length is needed
What is 6 seconds?
What is V-Fib (Ventricular Fibrillation)?
Wave associated with Atrial depolarization (contraction)
What is the P Wave?
What is Tachycardia?
A heart rhythm can be Regular, Irregular, and ____
What is Regularly Irregular?
Time represented by one large box on ECG paper
What is 0.2 seconds?
What is V-Tach (Ventricular Tachycardia)?
Rhythm with extended PR intervals
What are Heart Blocks?
What is Atrial Flutter?
Treat the _____ not the _____
What is Treat the Patient, not the Machine?
Time represented by one small box on ECG paper
What is 0.04 seconds?
What is Premature Atrial Contraction (PAC)?
Random very wide QRS complexes
What are PVC's (Premature Ventricular Contractions)?
What is 2nd Degree Block, Type 1?
What you get when you multiply the number of QRS complexes in a 6-second strip by 10
What is Heart Rate?
A rhythm strip can be obtained by viewing which lead?
What is Lead II?
First Degree Heart Block