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BASICS
RECORDING EKG
RATE
RHYTHM
MISC
100
The EKG records the electrical activity of the heart using skin sensors called _____________
What is electrodes
100

How many seconds do we use to interpret an EKG strip?

What is 6?

100
Normal sinus rhythm has what range of beats per minute
What is 60-100
100

Name an irregular rhythm.

What is wandering pacemaker, sinus arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation

100
Atrial flutter resembles a what appearance
What is sawtooth
200

The ability of the SA node to generate pacemaking stimuli is known as

What is automaticity

200

How many lines are their between 2 bold black lines

What is 4

200

What is the rate of Sinus Bradycardia?

What is <60?

200
In a-fib, do you see any R waves?
What is yes, but no P waves
200

What part of the entire EKG complex should be flat on the isoelectric line?

What is the ST segment?

300

DAILY DOUBLE

Name the order of the hearts electrical conduction system

What is SA node, AV node, Bundle of HIs, Rt and Lt bundle branches, purkinje fibers

300
How much time is between 2 bold black lines, referring to time in seconds
What is .2 seconds
300

What is pacing it at 40-60 beats/min? What about 20-40?

What is 40-60-AV junction 20-40-ventricles

300

How do we measure atrial rhythm? Ventricular rhythm?

What is P-P? What is R-R?

300
A P-R interval of more then .2 secs is a _____ _____ AV block
What is 1st degree
400

What does the QRS represent?

What is ventricular depolarization?

400
How much time is their between 2 thin lines
What is .04 seconds
400

What is the heart rate for controlled A-fib? Uncontrolled A-fib?

What is <100? >100?

400
What is a premature beat?
What is a beat earlier then expected
400

What is the difference between a PAC, PJC, and PVC?

PAC-Upright, different shape P wave. PJC-Inverted, absent, in the QRS, after the QRS. PVC-Wide and bizarre QRS, no P wave, R and T in opposite deflection. All early. 

500

What represents atrial depolarization?

What is the P wave?

500

Name what we measure of an EKG strip.

What is PR interval, QRS complex, and QT interval?

500
What is the rate for junctional escape? Accelerated junctional? Junctional tachycardia?

What is 40-60? 60-100. 100-200.

500
Explain a ventricular bigeminy
What is normal, pvc, normal, pvc, normal, pvc
500

Name characteristics of A fib.

What is irregularly irregular, no P wave, QRS normal, chaotic/fibrillatory waveform?