Electrocardiogram (ECG)
It's Electric
Left-Sided Heart Failure
Right-Sided Heart Failure
Chronic Heart Failure
100
Name the outcome that a 12-lead ECG provides.
What is shows 12 different views of the heart's electrical activity?
100
Name the method used for arrhythmia interpretation.
What is the six-step process?
100
Name the force the left ventricle must generate during a contraction to eject blood into the aorta through the aortic valve.
What is afterload?
100
This condition is the major cause of right-sided heart failure.
What is left-sided heart failure?
100
List the earliest symptoms of chronic heart failure.
What are fatigue and weakness?
200
Name the outcome that an 18-lead ECG provides.
What is shows 18 different views of the heart's electrical activity?
200
Do this to determine the regularity of a rhythm.
What is the count of the number of small squares between each R wave and/or use a caliper to measure the R-to-R spacing?
200
Name this medical condition that is a major cause of left-sided heart failure.
What is hypertension?
200
Name this condition when the right ventricle hypertrophies or fails from disorders of the lung.
What is cor pulmonale?
200
Name this breathing pattern of shallow respiration that builds to deep breaths followed by a period of apnea.
What is Cheyne-Stokes respirations?
300
Name the phenomenon represented by the P wave of the cardiac cycle.
What is representing atrial depolarization?
300
Explain the 6-second method that is used for irregular rhythms, which may also be used to estimate a rapid regular rhythm.
What is count the number of R waves with a 6-second strip?
300
Name this pressure that influences the force needed to open the aortic valve to pump blood into the aorta.
What is peripheral vascular resistance?
300
Name the condition when the liver becomes congested.
What is hepatomegaly?
300
Name this condition that many heart failure patients have due to hemodilution from fluid overload and decreased angiotensin-converting enzyme action, along with reduced ACE action that decreases erythropoietin release, resulting in decreased production of RBCs.
What is anemia?
400
Name the time represented that it takes for the electrical impulse to travel from the SA node to the AV node.
What is the PR interval?
400
Name this dangerous, life-threatening ventricular rhythm that occurs when many ectopic ventricular foci fire at the same time and are chaotic, with no discernible waves, and the ventricle quivers.
What is ventricular fibrillation?
400
This is the first location where blood backs up due to left-sided heart failure.
What is the left ventricle into the left atrium?
400
Name the medical condition when resistance increases from elevated pressure due to the primary effect on the right ventricular workload of the heart.
What is pulmonary hypertension?
400
List three priority chronic heart failure nursing diagnoses.
What are impaired gas exchange, decreased cardiac output, and excess fluid volume?
500
Name the outcome that the QRS complex represents.
What is ventricular depolarization?
500
Name the condition - the silent heart.
What is asystole?
500
Explain why alveolar edema is serious.
What is reduces gas exchange across the alveolar-capillary membrane, resulting in shortness of breath and cyanosis from decreased oxygenation of the blood?
500
Name the condition in which systemic venous congestion also leads to splenic distension.
What is splenomegaly?
500
Name this serum lab test that is made by the heart to regulate blood volume levels to reduce cardiac workload; when the heart works harder over time, more of this level is released.
What is B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP)?