Rhythm strips
Tachycardia originating from a pacemaker site above the level of the ventricles
What is SVT?
Medication in order for v-fib
What is epi, 300mg amiodarone, epi, 150 mg amiodarone?
R on T
What is an ectopic that hits when the ventricle is not fully repolarized?
Signs of endocarditis
What are fever, chills, SOB, nodules on toe pads?
Cardiac output
SVxHR
Variable PRI rhythm
What is wandering atrial pacemaker?
Time frame to be able to consider fibrinolytic therapy
What is 12 hours or less?
Irregularly, irregular
Slows SA node discharge and decreases conduction through the AV node
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Generation of electrical impulses in the heart
What is automaticity?
PVCs that appear differently on a strip
What are PVCs that originate from different sites in the ventricle?
First action after delivering a defibrillation
What is immediately resume high quality CPR?
Why SVT causes instability
What is decreased ventricular filling?
Signs of of aortic dissection
What is unrelenting pain between the shoulder blades and difference in blood pressure between arms?
Contraction of myocardial muscle fibers is caused by what electrolyte process
Sodium rushes into the cell
Sawtooth F waves
What is atrial flutter?
First intervention for chest pain, SOB, pulse ox 91%
What is provide O2?
Describe tachycardia
What is regular, rate >100, normal p-waves, normal PRI, normal QRS
Are more than 1/3 of the overall height of the QRS complex in lead II
What are pathologic Q waves?
Degree of pressure against which the left ventricle pumps
What is afterload?
Ectopic beats that originate from a different pacemaker site
What are PACs, PJCs, PVCs?
First intervention to an unresponsive person without a pulse
What is immediate coordinated CPR for 5 cycles?
What is the slurring on the upstroke of the QRS?
What is a delta wave?
Precordial leads view which wall(s) of the heart
What are lateral, septal, anterior?
Frank Starling mechanism
What is increased myocardial contractility due to stretching of the myocardium