Role, Workplace & Legal Standards
This term defines the specific clinical duties, responsibilities, and procedures an EKG technician is legally permitted to perform?
An infection confined to a single specific body site, such as an infected wound on an arm, is classified as this type of infection.
What is a Localized Infection?
A patient who presents with a normal body temperature of 98.6°F is described by this clinical term, meaning "without fever."
What is afebrile?
These two superior heart chambers serve as receiving rooms for returning venous blood before sending it to the lower chambers.
What are the Atria (Right & Left Atria)?
The buildup of fatty plaque deposits inside the inner arterial wall lining is known by this specific disease term.
What is Atherosclerosis?
This term defines a conductive adhesive sensor placed directly on a patient's skin to detect cardiac electrical activity.
What is an Electrode?
This healthcare workplace setting operates on a scheduled, predictable pace for routine baseline EKGs, unlike acute hospital care.
What is Ambulatory Care?
This hand hygiene method is mandatory when hands are visibly dirty or when caring for a patient with C. diff.
What is Soap and Water?
Feeling an arterial pulse at the thumb side of the wrist using fingertips is known as this clinical technique at this anatomical site.
What is Palpation of the Radial Artery?
This side of the heart receives deoxygenated blood returning from the systemic body tissues and pumps it to the lungs.
What is the Right Side of the Heart?
This clinical term defines a blood clot, air bubble, or foreign mass that breaks loose and travels through the bloodstream.
What is an Embolus?
This electrical cellular process represents cardiac muscle relaxation and chemical recovery following a contraction.
What is Repolarization?
Placing EKG electrodes on a patient's torso at precise anatomical landmarks is classified as this type of technical skill.
What is a Hard Skill?
Under this core infection control standard, healthcare workers must treat all blood, body fluids, non-intact skin, and mucous membranes as potentially infectious for every patient.
What are Standard Precautions?
A resting adult respiration rate greater than 20 breaths per minute is identified by this clinical medical term.
What is Tachypnea?
Located between the left atrium and left ventricle, this valve prevents backward blood flow into the left atrium.
What is the Mitral (Bicuspid) Valve?
This clinical term defines complete coronary artery occlusion causing permanent cardiac muscle cell death.
What is Myocardial Infarction?
This diagnostic modality provides continuous real-time wireless cardiac rhythm monitoring for hospitalized acute care patients.
What is Telemetry Monitoring?
Performing an EKG on a competent adult patient who explicitly refused the procedure constitutes this intentional legal tort.
What is Battery?
According to CDC guidelines, this item of contaminated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is removed FIRST during the doffing sequence because it is the most heavily soiled.
What are gloves?
Under AHA guidelines, a patient with a blood pressure reading of 134/84 mmHg is classified into this specific hypertension category.
What is Stage 1 Hypertension?
This large arterial trunk receives oxygenated blood ejected from the left ventricle to supply the systemic circulation.
What is the Aorta?
Fluid backup into the systemic venous circulation causing swelling in the lower legs and ankles (peripheral edema) indicates failure of this side of the heart.
What is Right-Sided Congestive Heart Failure?
Leads II, III, and aVF are classified as what specific anatomical EKG lead group?
What are the Inferior Leads?
Positioning computer monitors away from public view and using password protection are required under this specific HIPAA rule safeguard.
What are Physical Safeguards?
Performing an EKG on a patient with suspected Tuberculosis requires placing them in an AIIR room and wearing this piece of PPE.
What is an N95 Respirator?
An arterial blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) reading below 90 percent is defined by this clinical term, indicating deficient blood oxygenation.
What is Hypoxemia?
The circuit that carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs for gas exchange and back to the left atrium is called this.
What is the Pulmonary Circuit?
This neurological emergency occurs when an arterial blood clot blocks blood flow to brain tissue.
What is a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)?
This chest electrode is anatomically placed in the fifth intercostal space along the left midclavicular line.
What is Precordial Lead V4 (Chest Electrode V4)?