Rhythm strips
ACLS
Dysrhythmia
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Definitions
100

Tachycardia originating from a pacemaker site above the level of the ventricles

What is SVT?

100

Medication in order for v-fib

What is epi, 300mg amiodarone, epi, 150 mg amiodarone?

100

R on T

What is an ectopic that hits when the ventricle is not fully repolarized?

100

Signs of endocarditis

What are fever, chills, SOB, nodules on toe pads?

100

Cardiac output

SVxHR

200

Variable PRI rhythm

What is wandering atrial pacemaker?

200

Time frame to be able to consider fibrinolytic therapy

What is 12 hours or less?

200

Irregularly, irregular

What is atrial fibrillation?
200

Slows SA node discharge and decreases conduction through the AV node

What is the parasympathetic nervous system?

200

Generation of electrical impulses in the heart

What is automaticity?

300

PVCs that appear differently on a strip

What are PVCs that originate from different sites in the ventricle?

300

First action after delivering a defibrillation

What is immediately resume high quality CPR?

300

Why SVT causes instability

What is decreased ventricular filling?

300

Signs of of aortic dissection

What is unrelenting pain between the shoulder blades and difference in blood pressure between arms?

300

Contraction of myocardial muscle fibers is caused by what electrolyte process

Sodium rushes into the cell

400

Sawtooth F waves

What is atrial flutter?

400

First intervention for chest pain, SOB, pulse ox 91%

What is provide O2?

400

Describe tachycardia

What is regular, rate >100, normal p-waves, normal PRI, normal QRS

400

Are more than 1/3 of the overall height of the QRS complex in lead II

What are pathologic Q waves?

400

Degree of pressure against which the left ventricle pumps

What is afterload?

500

Ectopic beats that originate from a different pacemaker site

What are PACs, PJCs, PVCs?

500

First intervention to an unresponsive person without a pulse

What is immediate coordinated CPR for 5 cycles?

500

What is the slurring on the upstroke of the QRS?

What is a delta wave?

500

Precordial leads view which wall(s) of the heart

What are lateral, septal, anterior?

500

Frank Starling mechanism

What is increased myocardial contractility due to stretching of the myocardium