CRAT Study Guide With Correct Answers, Latest Updated 2024/2025 (100% VERIFIED)
Normal PRI interval - Answer 0.12-0.20 Normal QRS interval - Answer 0.11 or less What does the P wave represent? - Answer Atrial depolarization What does the QRS complex represent? - Answer Atrial repolarization and ventricular depolarization Q wave indicates what? - Answer Dead myocardial tissue. Always a negative deflection What is the natural pacemaker of the heart? - Answer SA node 3 types of pacemakers - Answer 1) single (either RA or RV) 2) dual chamber (RA and LV) 3) bi-ventricular (RV and LV -- Congestive Heart Failure) Which HB would you NOT need a pacemaker for? - Answer First-degree AV block (prolonged PRI 0.20 seconds) Define intrinsic beats - Answer The patient's own heart beat What is sensing? - Answer The ability for the heart to sense and respond to the electrical activity of the heart What is capture? - Answer The pacemaker sends a stimulus to the heart which causes the heart to depolarize Failure to sense - Answer Lack of pacemaker spikes where they should have been. Battery can be dead. Failure to capture (loss of capture) - Answer No P or QRS after the pacemaker spike Undersensing - Answer Pacemaker spikes in areas where they should not be (i.e. in the T wave, an ST segment, or on top of another QRS)
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