Because C Said So
TLA
Anatomy Anatomy Anatomy
ECGs
Guss Facts
100
"The simplest ICD trial"
MADIT 2 (LV EF <30% primary prevention)
100
An anatomical space in the right atrium that acts as an isthmus for some atrial flutters
What is the CTI?
100
Typically patients have this many valves within their pericardium?
What is 6 (mitral, tricuspid, pulmonic, aortic, eustachian, and thebesian)
100
The location of this VT, associated with exercise
Where is the RVOT?
100
A classification system for AADs
What is the Vaughan Williams classification?
200
"It's a misnomer, there are only two bundles"
What is trifascicular block?
200
A reentrant tachycardia that uses a retrograde conducting accessory pathway
What is ORT?
200
This structure runs transversely in the left atrioventricular groove on the posterior aspect of the heart
What is the coronary sinus?
200
A patient with a pacemaker presents feeling poorly after moving a refrigerator
What is lead dislodgement or failure to capture?
200
This "vestigial" pouch acts as a decompression chamber during left ventricular systole
What is the LAA?
300
A primary prevention trial testing prophylactic CRT implantation in patients with advanced chronic heart failure and QRS >120msec
What is COMPANION?
300
A pacemaker that interrogates but is no longer reprogrammable
What is EOL?
300
An anatomical variant that begins at the junction of the left subclavian and the internal jugular veins and passes through the left side of the mediastinum
What is persistent left superior vena cava?
300
An occurrence when a pacemaker fails to detect spontaneous myocardial depolarization
What is undersensing?
300
Class V AAD that works by "other" or unknown mechanisms
What is adenosine, digoxin, or magnesium sulfate?
400
This cardiac abnormality results in an artificially elevated LV EF
What is mitral regurgitation
400
Tachycardia requiring delayed retrograde conduction
What is PMT?
400
An anomaly associated with ECG findings of broad "Himalayan" P waves, atypical RBBB, and multiple accessory pathways is associated with what medication exposure?
What is Lithium (Ebstein's anomaly)
400
An elderly female with nausea and vomiting and AKI
What is digoxin toxicity?
400
Slow spontaneous depolarization of a diseased His-Purkinje system resulting in block
What is Phase 4 block?
500
This trial found no evidence of improved survival among patients with depressed LVEF* ** *** (Terms and conditions may apply)
What is CABG PATCH
500
An anatomical structure located on the epicardium between the left atrial appendage and the left pulmonary veins
What is the LOM?
500
An uncommon source of PAC's that comes in contact with the membranous septum near the His region, but is not within either atrium
What is the non coronary cusp?
500
A patient presents with poor exercise capacity
What is electrical alternans / cardiac tamponade
500
Lown-Ganong-Levine syndrome, or LGL, are attributed primarily to this fiber; an atrioventricular bypass fiber that passes through the AV node
James Fibers