Anatomy
EKG/ Tech
Waveform/ Graphs
The Grid/ Leads
Numbers
100
What are the Great Vessels?
Superior Vena Cava, Inferior Vena Cava, Pulmonary Veins, Pulmonary Artery, and Aorta.
100
What does the EKG tech assists with the MD and RN?
Collecting information about the patient's heart
100
What does Horizontal and Vertical represent?
H-Time & V-Voltage
100
How many small squares make up a large square that is marked by dark lines?
5
100
How many large boxes take up the space between two hash marks?
15
200
What is the Electricity Nodes of the heart?
Sino artery node, Atrial ventricle node, Bundle Branches, Bundle of His, Prekinje Fibers
200
Who created the ECG machine? Where was he from?
William Einthoven. Holland
200
What are the layers of the heart?
Pericardium, Epicardium, Endocardium, Myocardium
200
Each small square represents......? Each large square represents......?
S-0.04 seconds L- 0.2 seconds
200
What is the heart rate of Tachycardia and Bradycardia?
T- HR>100 B- HR<60
300
What is another name for the SA node?
Insentric pace maker.
300
What can the EKG machine not predict?
Heart Attacks
300
What are the names of the Spontaneously trigger of the electrical impulse, Receives & transmits electrical impulses, Responses to stimulus, and Shortens in response to electrical impulse.
Automaticity, Conductivity, Excitability, Contractility.
300
In a 12-Lead, what three types of leads are there on an ECG?
Standard Limb Lead, Augmented Lead, and Pericardial Lead
300
What do you calculate to determine a patient's target heart rate?
Calculate the patient's max heart rate, then multiply max HR by 90%.
400
Which valve prevents blood from coming back up?
Transcuspic
400
What is the name of the recording device used for recording an EKG?
Galvanometer
400
Waveform plus a segment equals what...? Line between the 2nd waveform is a...?
Interval, Segment
400
What does Leads 1,2,and 3 record through the body? ex: R arm to R leg
Lead 1 records through right arm to the left leg Lead 2 records from the right arm to the left leg Lead 3 records from the left arm to the left leg.
400
From 1 to 7, How many large boxes make up a HR?
1 LG = 300 HR 2 LG = 150 HR 3 LG = 100 HR 4 LG = 75 HR 5 LG = 60 HR 6 LG = 50 HR 7 LG = 43 HR
500
What is the abbreviation of a, p, c, s, s/s?
Before, After, With, Without, Half
500
How many electrodes and Leads are on an EKG machine?
10 electrodes and 12-lead
500
What are all the names of the waveforms starting with the Baseline?
P-Wave, PR Interval, PR Segment, QRS Complex, ST Segment, T-Wave
500
LA sensors are...? LL sensors are...?
LA= negative LL= positive
500
What chemical releases into the blood stream indicating a myocardial infarction and leads to....? (2-part Question)
Troponin is the chemical caused from the heart tissue necrosis. And leads to the ST segment