Augmented leads are - Answers - ✔✔ Leads in which the EKG machine must increase
the voltage
Accelerated junctional rhythm has a heart rate of - Answers - ✔✔ 60-100
Dying heart is another name for - Answers - ✔✔ Atonal rhythm
ventricular fibrillation can be caused by - Answers - ✔✔ Drug overdose, heart attack,
and drowning
Which of the following is NOT a bipolar lead? - Answers - ✔✔ AVF
Lead II connects which limbs? - Answers - ✔✔ Right arm and left foot
QRS complexes in ventricular rhythms are - Answers - ✔✔ Wide and bizarre
PVCs are - Answers - ✔✔ Premature ventricular complexes
In P wave asystole there are - Answers - ✔✔ P waves but no QRS complexes
Multifocal couplets are - Answers - ✔✔ A pair of PVCs that look different
In AV blocks, the P-P interval is - Answers - ✔✔ Regular
atrial fibrillation is - Answers - ✔✔ Irregular
In first-degree AV block, the site of the block is the - Answers - ✔✔ AV node
A PAC is a - Answers - ✔✔ Premature beat from the atrium
Figure 8 - Answers - ✔✔ Junctional rhythm
In type II second-degree AV block, where do the P waves originate? - Answers - ✔✔
Sinus node
Lead I connects which limbs? - Answers - ✔✔ Right arm and left arm
The wide-QRS in figure 10 is a(n) - Answers - ✔✔ Ventricular escape beat
The rhythm in figure 10 is - Answers - ✔✔ Sinus rhythm with a sinus arrest and
ventricular escape beat.
, The QRS interval of the ventricular beat in Figure 10 is closest to - Answers - ✔✔ 0.20
seconds
Torsades de pointes means - Answers - ✔✔ Twisting of the points
The layer of the heart that is damaged during a heart attack is the - Answers - ✔✔
Myocardium
Atrial Fibrillation has - Answers - ✔✔ No P waves at all
Multifocal PVCs are those that - Answers - ✔✔ Have different shaped QRS compleses
Which of these statements about how sinus arrhythmia differs from wandering atrial
pacemaker true - Answers - ✔✔ Sinus arrhythmia has uniform P wave shapes;
wandering atrial pacemaker has at least three different shaped P waves
In third-degree AV block, if the block is at the AV node - Answers - ✔✔ The QRS will
be narrow
The rhythm in Figure 15 is - Answers - ✔✔ Torsades de pointes
A premature beat arising from the AV junction is called - Answers - ✔✔ PJC
Atrial fibrillation is characterized by what kind of P waves? - Answers - ✔✔ No P waves
at all
The heart rate in Figure 14 is closest to - Answers - ✔✔ 100
The rhythm in Figure 14 is - Answers - ✔✔ Ventricular tachycardia
Ventricular fibrillation has what effect on the cardiac output - Answers - ✔✔ Causes
cardiac output to stop completely
In which kind of AV block do NONE of the sinus impluses reach the ventricles - Answers
- ✔✔ Third-degree AV block
A PAC often deforms the shape of the - Answers - ✔✔ Preceding T wave
Which strip in Figure 17 is consistent with sinus rhythm with first-degree AV block -
Answers - ✔✔ A
Which strip in Figure 17 is consistent with third-degree AV block - Answers - ✔✔ D