KAISER EKG CORRECT STUDYS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔causes of svt - ✔✔- CAD
- HTN
- rheumatic valve disease
- dig tox
- after acute MI
- hypoxia
- hyperthyroidism
- caffeine
- tobacco
- alcohol
✔✔tachycardia tx
- symptomatic
- nonsymptomatic & REGULAR
- nonsymptomatic & WIDE - ✔✔symptomatic
- synchronized cardioversion
nonsymptomatic & REGULAR
- vagal, adenosine, cardioversion, CCB
nonsymptomatic & WIDE
- adenosine (if reg * monomorphic)
- antiarrhythmic inf
- expert consultation
✔✔tachycardia tx:
adenosine dose - ✔✔adenosine
1st - 6mg IVP
2nd - 12 mg if required
, ✔✔tachycardia tx:
amiodarone iv infusion - ✔✔amiodarone
1st - 150mg over 10 mins
2nd - maintenance 1mg/min for first 6 hrs
✔✔tachycardia tx:
procainamide iv - ✔✔procainamide
20-50 mg/min
max dose 17 mg/kg
maintenance 1-4 mg/min
✔✔tachycardia tx:
sotalol iv - ✔✔sotalol
100 mg (1.5 mg/kg) over 5 min
✔✔junctional rhythm
- rate
- rhythm
- p waves
- pr interval
- qrs complex - ✔✔rate
- 40-60
(accelerated junction = 60-100)
rhythm
- regular
p waves
- p waves inverted, buried, or can appear before/after qrs
pr interval
- 0.12 if present
qrs complex
- narrow 0.06-0.12
✔✔inverted p wave cause - ✔✔impulse moving in retrograde direction from the AV
node up to the atria
✔✔PVCs
- rate
- rhythm
- p waves
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔causes of svt - ✔✔- CAD
- HTN
- rheumatic valve disease
- dig tox
- after acute MI
- hypoxia
- hyperthyroidism
- caffeine
- tobacco
- alcohol
✔✔tachycardia tx
- symptomatic
- nonsymptomatic & REGULAR
- nonsymptomatic & WIDE - ✔✔symptomatic
- synchronized cardioversion
nonsymptomatic & REGULAR
- vagal, adenosine, cardioversion, CCB
nonsymptomatic & WIDE
- adenosine (if reg * monomorphic)
- antiarrhythmic inf
- expert consultation
✔✔tachycardia tx:
adenosine dose - ✔✔adenosine
1st - 6mg IVP
2nd - 12 mg if required
, ✔✔tachycardia tx:
amiodarone iv infusion - ✔✔amiodarone
1st - 150mg over 10 mins
2nd - maintenance 1mg/min for first 6 hrs
✔✔tachycardia tx:
procainamide iv - ✔✔procainamide
20-50 mg/min
max dose 17 mg/kg
maintenance 1-4 mg/min
✔✔tachycardia tx:
sotalol iv - ✔✔sotalol
100 mg (1.5 mg/kg) over 5 min
✔✔junctional rhythm
- rate
- rhythm
- p waves
- pr interval
- qrs complex - ✔✔rate
- 40-60
(accelerated junction = 60-100)
rhythm
- regular
p waves
- p waves inverted, buried, or can appear before/after qrs
pr interval
- 0.12 if present
qrs complex
- narrow 0.06-0.12
✔✔inverted p wave cause - ✔✔impulse moving in retrograde direction from the AV
node up to the atria
✔✔PVCs
- rate
- rhythm
- p waves
