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100

This cardiac structure initiates atrial depolarization and acts as the natural pacemaker

What is the sinus node?

100
This arrythmia usually affects young women and uses two separate pathways in the bundle of HIS to sustain a fast tachycardia.
What is AVNRT?
100

35-55 ms is a normal interval between these two signals

What is H-V?

100
This type of ablation catheter uses a fluid cooled tip.
What is an irrigated catheter?
100

The mapping system with the best looking mappers

What is Abbott/ESI/Jack?

200

This cardiac structure receives the electrical impulse from the atria then sends the signal to the ventricles via the HIS-Purkinje system

What is the AV node?

200
This reentrant tachycardia uses an accessory pathway and the AV node to sustain a fast arrythmia.
What is AVRT?
200

50-120 ms is a normal interval between these two signals.

What is A-H?

200
This type of ablation catheter is non-irrigated and is used to ablate thicker, more fibrous tissue and typically produces deeper lesions.
What is an 8mm catheter?
200
This medication is given IV, is used to block the AV node and has a six second half life.
What is adenosine?
300

This structure is located in the left atrium and is known for harboring clots in AF patients due to blood stasis.

What is the Left Atrial Appendage?

300

This reciprocating tachycardia passes through the fibrous tissue located between the tricuspid valve and the IVC, an area known as the isthmus.

What is typical flutter?

300

This rhythm is characterized by intermittent disruption at the level of the AV with a lengthening of the PRI.

What is Wenckebach?

300

This type of mapping involves the use of patches or magnets that give impedance feedback and assist the operator in locating the catheter in real-time space to help with identifying cardiac anatomy and ablation lesion sets.

What is 3D mapping?

300

This phenomenon is used to describe the inability of electrically paced stimuli to exit the pulmonary veins.

What is exit block?

400

This electrically inert area of the heart separates the atria from the ventricles and normally does not allow electricity to pass through

What is the AV groove?

400

This Supraventricular tachycardia originates in the atria, may be either focal or mutifocal, and may present with varying P wave morphology or varying PR intervals.

What is atrial tachycardia?

400

This phenomenon describes the movement of electrical activity from a fast pathway to the slow pathway in the HIS. It's demonstrated by an increase of 50 or more ms of the AH interval on the HIS catheter from the last two paced atrial beats.

What is an AH jump?

400
This type of ablation approach uses an femoral arterial puncture site and is used when transeptal approach is not feasible or impractical.
What is a retrograde arterial approach?
400

This type of map, used to determine the viability of LV tissue, will help the physician assess which tissue is scar, and which is healthy.

What is a voltage map or a scar map?

500
This cardiac structure is an area of smooth muscle that is located in the left atrium between the left superior pulmonary vein and the left atrial appendage
What is the coumadin ridge?
500

When ablating AF, passing over these areas while ablating in the left atrium may produce a vagal response, requiring immediate pacing.

What are the ganglionic plexii?

500

When viewed on intracardiac signals, this electrical activity represents a slow moving electrical channel through scar during a VT ablation.

What are mid-diastolic potentials?

500

Certain catheters deliver trains of high-voltage, ultra-rapid electrical pulses that form irreversible pores in cell membranes which is an example of what phenomena? 

What is electroporation?

500

This complication can occur when a rise in esophageal temperatures manifests during ablation without corrective action. It can lead to sepsis and has a very high mortality rate.

What is atrioesophageal fistula?