DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT 2025 updated
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Cardiac rhythms may be classified as: - Correct Answer-✔✔Regular or irregular
When rhythms are irregular, or rates are either fast or slow, and ECG will identify the origin of the
beats to be what? - Correct Answer-✔✔Sinus node, AV node, Atrium, or Ventricle and the
conduction pattern
Normal range for sinus rhythm - Correct Answer-✔✔60-100 bpm
If the rhythm is regular, - Correct Answer-✔✔Look at the rate
(>100 Fast, 60-90 Normal, or <60 Slow)
if rhythm is irregular - Correct Answer-✔✔note the pattern of irregularity
(sporadic, regularly irregular, or irregularly irregular)
Fast >100 rates - Correct Answer-✔✔Sinus Tachycardia
Supraventricular (atrial or nodal) Tachycardia
Atrial Flutter with a regular ventricular response
Ventricular Tachycardia
Normal 60-90 rates - Correct Answer-✔✔Normal sinus rhythm
Second degree AV block
Atrial Flutter with a regular ventricular response
, Slow <60 rates - Correct Answer-✔✔Sinus Bradycardia
Second-Degree AV block
Complete Heart Block
100-180 bpm - Correct Answer-✔✔sinus tachycardia
150-250 bpm - Correct Answer-✔✔supraventricular (atrial or nodal) tachycardia
100-175 bpm - Correct Answer-✔✔Atrial Flutter with a regular ventricular response (fast)
60-90 bpm - Correct Answer-✔✔normal sinus rhythm (heart rate)
60-100 bpm - Correct Answer-✔✔Second- degree AV Block (normal)
75-100 bpm - Correct Answer-✔✔Atrial Flutter with a regular ventricular response (normal)
<60 bpm - Correct Answer-✔✔sinus bradycardia
30-60 bpm - Correct Answer-✔✔second-degree AV block (slow)
<40 bpm - Correct Answer-✔✔Complete heart block
Premature or extra beats at random intervals, but normal underlying rhythm (e.g., atrial or
ventricular premature contractions, sinus arrhythmia) - Correct Answer-✔✔Sporadic