What property is the ability of a cardiac cellular to initiate an electrical impulse?
Automaticity
Excitability
Conductivity
Contractility - ANSAutomaticity
What electrolyte is essential in cardiac muscle contraction?
Calcium
Chloride
Glucose
Phosphorus - ANSCalcium
What are ECG artifacts?
A normal finding
False cardiac waves
The movement potential
Ventricular repolarization - ANSFalse cardiac waves
What is the maximum common purpose for the alarm to sound in the course of an ECG
procedure?
Abnormal cardiac rhythm
Loosening of a leadwire
Myocardial infarction
Patient motion artifact - ANSLoosening of a leadwire
Lead I is beneficial for tracking? (Select all that apply)
Atrial rhythms
Hemi blocks
QRS complexes
Ventricular characteristic - ANSAtrial rhythms
Hemi blocks
When the parasympathetic nerve fibers are stimulated what's released?
Acetylcholine
Adrenaline
Norepinephrine
Vagal - ANSAcetylcholine
ECGs are used to reveal the effects of recent medications.
True
, False - ANSTrue
ECGs may be used to screen: (Select all that practice.)
Deviations from rhythm developments
Effects of a brand new drug
Ejection fraction
Rhythm traits - ANSDeviations from rhythm trends
Effects of a brand new drug
Rhythm developments
Along with Lead II, Lead III is maximum useful for tracking what?
Anterior wall
Changes related to inferior wall myocardial infarction
QRS complexes
Ventricular characteristic - ANSChanges associated with inferior wall myocardial infarction
What is the normal measurement for the QRS complicated?
Zero.04 to zero.12 seconds
0.04 to zero.10 seconds
0.10 to 0.24 seconds
0.14 to 0.20 seconds - ANS0.04 to zero.10 seconds
The PRI is condensed ordinary or extended if it measures greater than _____.
Zero.06 seconds
zero.12 seconds
zero.20 seconds
0.24 seconds - ANS0.20 seconds
What is the intrinsic price of the ventricles (Purkinje fibers)?
20 - forty beats in line with minute
forty - 60 beats in step with minute
60 - a hundred beats per minute
one hundred - one hundred fifty beats consistent with minute - ANS20 - 40 beats in keeping with
minute
What form of coronary heart valve separates the atrium and the ventricle?
Aortic
Atrioventricular
Pulmonic
Semilunar - ANSAtrioventricular
What is the intrinsic charge of the AV node?
20 - 40 beats per minute
forty - 60 beats in step with minute
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