AMCA EKG EXAMINATION TEST BANK
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
ANSWERS
●● Waveforms may be displayed on a screen called an:
Answer: oscilloscope
●● The breastbone is referred to as the:
Answer: sternum
●● What are the three layers of the heart?
Answer: epicardium, myocardium, endocardium
●● The use of non-invasive and painless ultrasound to examine the
heart, its chambers and valves is known as?
Answer: Echocardiography
●● Which of the following actions is helpful in assisting patients with
their needs?
Answer: Keeping a list of community resources that can further assist
the patient
,●● Automaticity means?
Answer: The ability of certain cells to produce an electrical impulse
without the need for outside nerve stimulation
●● Ventricular depolarization?
Answer: QRS
●● Contraction or systole of the cardiac muscle
Answer: depolarization
●● Relaxation or Diastole of the
cardiac muscle
Answer: repolarization
●● Atrial depolarization
Answer: P wave
●● ventricular repolarization
Answer: T wave
●● Two PVCs in a row
Answer: couplet
, ●● Atrial fibrillation has?
Answer: no P waves
●● On an ECG horizontal lines measure
Answer: heart rate
●● Lowers overall resistance in the vascular beds?
Answer: ACE inhibitors
●● The PR interval gets progressively longer in?
Answer: 2nd degree AV heart block
●● Touching a person's body without his or her consent is
Answer: Battery
●● An idioventricular rhythm has a rate of
Answer: 20-40 bpm
●● Which patient education process lets you know that the teaching plan
is working?
Answer: Evaluation
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
ANSWERS
●● Waveforms may be displayed on a screen called an:
Answer: oscilloscope
●● The breastbone is referred to as the:
Answer: sternum
●● What are the three layers of the heart?
Answer: epicardium, myocardium, endocardium
●● The use of non-invasive and painless ultrasound to examine the
heart, its chambers and valves is known as?
Answer: Echocardiography
●● Which of the following actions is helpful in assisting patients with
their needs?
Answer: Keeping a list of community resources that can further assist
the patient
,●● Automaticity means?
Answer: The ability of certain cells to produce an electrical impulse
without the need for outside nerve stimulation
●● Ventricular depolarization?
Answer: QRS
●● Contraction or systole of the cardiac muscle
Answer: depolarization
●● Relaxation or Diastole of the
cardiac muscle
Answer: repolarization
●● Atrial depolarization
Answer: P wave
●● ventricular repolarization
Answer: T wave
●● Two PVCs in a row
Answer: couplet
, ●● Atrial fibrillation has?
Answer: no P waves
●● On an ECG horizontal lines measure
Answer: heart rate
●● Lowers overall resistance in the vascular beds?
Answer: ACE inhibitors
●● The PR interval gets progressively longer in?
Answer: 2nd degree AV heart block
●● Touching a person's body without his or her consent is
Answer: Battery
●● An idioventricular rhythm has a rate of
Answer: 20-40 bpm
●● Which patient education process lets you know that the teaching plan
is working?
Answer: Evaluation
