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, 1. What is the normal rate of a healthy adult heartbeat?
Answer: 60 to 100 beats per minute (bpm)
2. Where is the primary pacemaker of the heart located?
Answer: The Sinoatrial (SA) node
3. What is the intrinsic rate of the SA node?
Answer: 60 to 100 bpm
4. Which electrical conduction pathway connects the atria to the
ventricles?
Answer: The Atrioventricular (AV) node
5. What is the intrinsic rate of the AV node?
Answer: 40 to 60 bpm
6. What is the intrinsic rate of the Purkinje fibers/ventricles?
Answer: 20 to 40 bpm
7. What does the "P" wave represent on an ECG/EKG strip?
Answer: Atrial depolarization (atrial contraction)
8. What does the "QRS" complex represent on an ECG/EKG strip?
Answer: Ventricular depolarization (ventricular contraction)
9. What does the "T" wave represent on an ECG/EKG strip?
Answer: Ventricular repolarization (ventricular relaxation)
10. What is the normal duration of the PR interval?
Answer: 0.12 to 0.20 seconds (3 to 5 small boxes)
11. What is the normal duration of the QRS complex?
Answer: Less than 0.12 seconds (less than 3 small boxes)
12. How many small boxes are in one large box on standard ECG
paper?
Answer: 5 small boxes
13. How much time does one small box represent on standard ECG