ASPT EKG CERTIFICATION
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1. What is the vein that brings blood from below the diaphragm to the
heart? - ANS ✓Inferior vena cava
2. What is a term for "a rapid heart beat"? - ANS ✓tachycardia
3. What is it called when the right and left coronary arteries can't
supply enough blood to the heart? - ANS ✓Coronary insufficiency
4. Which system's purpose is to initiate the heart beat and regulate the
cardiac cycle? - ANS ✓The conduction system
5. What do you call an event occurring at a place other than its normal
location? - ANS ✓Ectopic
6. What are heart beats generated by from an impulse originating some
other place than the SA node? - ANS ✓Ectopic heart beats
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7. Where is the SA node located? - ANS ✓in the upper wall of the right
atrium
8. What is the function of the SA node? - ANS ✓generate the stimulus to
make the heart beat
9. What is the term for the heart when its is contracting? - ANS ✓Systole
10. What is a non-synchronous contraction of the muscle tissue,
with individual cells firing at their own rate, making the heart look
like a "bag of worms"? - ANS ✓Fibrillation
11. What happens when the atria contracts? - ANS ✓The blood is
squeezed into the ventricles
12. What could happen to the patient when the heart beats too
slow? - ANS ✓The patient can suffer from syncope (fainting)
13. Where is the heart located? - ANS ✓mediastinum
14. What is the function of the heart? - ANS ✓Pump sufficient
amounts of blood to all the cells in the body
15. When does the U wave appear, if it appears? - ANS ✓after the T
wave
16. What is reduced blood to the heart, a condition of inadequate
blood flow to a tissue? - ANS ✓Ischemia
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