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What is the heart's primary pacemaker? Correct Answer: SA Node What is a more medically correct term for the clotting of an artery? Correct Answer: Occlusion When the Atria depolarize (or contract), what is shown on the EKG tracing? Correct Answer: P Wave aVR picks up from the center of...

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NHA EKG Certification Assessment| 70
QUESTIONS| GRADED A
What is the heart's primary pacemaker? Correct Answer: SA Node

What is a more medically correct term for the clotting of an artery? Correct Answer: Occlusion

When the Atria depolarize (or contract), what is shown on the EKG tracing? Correct Answer: P Wave

aVR picks up from the center of the ___ to the ___ ___.
(Add "to the" in your answer.) Correct Answer: Heart to the Right Arm

An irregular heartbeat that is common among children is called _____ _____. Correct Answer: Sinus
Arrhythmia

1 small box on an EKG strip denotes 0.04 seconds of time. How long is this represented in millimeters?
Correct Answer: 1 mm

Lead I picks up from the ___ ___ to the ___ ___. (Add "to the" in your answer.) Correct Answer: Right
Arm to the Left Arm

What is the term used to described the amount of blood pumped by the heart per minute? Correct
Answer: Cardiac Output

Leads I through III are collectively known as? Correct Answer: Standard Leads

Lead II picks up from the ___ ___ to the ___ ___. (Add "to the" in your answer.) Correct Answer: Right
Arm to the Left Leg

Leads V1 through V6 are collectively known as
(Hint: Chest) Correct Answer: Precordial Leads

What is the main artery in the arterial system?
(Hint: It carries oxygenated blood to the heart and other parts of the body.) Correct Answer: Aorta

aVL picks up from the center of the ___ to the ___ ___.
(Add "to the" in your answer.) Correct Answer: Heart to the Left Arm

aVR, aVL, and aVF are collectively known as? Correct Answer: Augmented Leads

Lead III picks up from the ___ ___ to the ___ ___. (Add "to the" in your answer.) Correct Answer: Left
Arm to the Left Leg

Leg electrodes are only used for? Correct Answer: Grounding

, aVF picks up from the center of the ___ to the ___ ___.
(Add "to the" in your answer.) Correct Answer: Heart to the Left Leg

What is the main vein in the venous system? (Hint: It carries deoxygenated blood from the lungs to the
heart's right atrium.) Correct Answer: Superior Vena Cava

When the heart is in a Systolic State, what pacemaker releases an electrical impulse? Correct Answer:
AV Node

V5, located on the anterior axillary line (AAL), should be placed halfway between which two leads?
Correct Answer: V4 and V6

The Mitral Valve is also known as the ___ ___. Correct Answer: Bicuspid Valve

When the Ventricles depolarize (or contract), what is shown on the EKG tracing? Correct Answer: QRS
Complex

When using a Sphygmomanometer (Blood Pressure Cuff) to measure blood pressure, the FIRST audible
thump when listening to the brachial artery with a Stethoscope denotes what kind of pressure? Correct
Answer: Systolic

The Angle of Louis provides the LOCATION for which intercostal space? (Write out the number) Correct
Answer: Second

When clotting reduces oxygen supply to a region of the heart it is known as _____. Correct Answer:
Ischemia

When the Atria repolarize (or are at rest), what is shown on the EKG tracing? Correct Answer: PR
Segment

True or False?
You should stop a stress test because of a change of heart rhythm. Correct Answer: False

What is missing in this outline of Pulmonary Circulation?
1) RA (Right Atrium)
2) Tricuspid Valve
3) RV (Right Ventricle)
4) Pulmonary Valve
5) Pulmonary Arteries (Right/Left)
6) Lungs
7) Pulmonary Veins (Right/Left)
8) LA (Left Atrium)
9) Mitral Valve
10) LV (Left Ventricle)
11) _____
12) Aorta Correct Answer: Aortic Valve

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