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34 Cards in this Set

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Where is sodium located? inside or outside cell
outside
electrostim increase or decrease Na+ permeability?
increase
Na+ is fast or slow channel?
fast
Potassium located inside or outside of cell?
inside
K+ fast or slow channel?
slow
Repolarization occurs through?
K+ flow back into cell, exceeding Na+
10 electrodes allow how many different, simultaneous views of the heart's contraction?
12
describe Einthoven's triangle:
(-) (-) lead 1 (+) (-)
lead 2 lead 3
(+) (+)
(left leg lead)
wave of depolarization goes in which direction?
down and to the left
what is that crazy poem about lead placement?
"the white clouds over the green grass, the black smoek over the red fire, all goes around the brown"
V1 hears what?
tricuspid valve
V2 hears wat?
tricuspid valve
V4 hears what?
mitral valve
Which leads look at lateral wall?
1, AVL, V5 V6
which leads look at anterior wall?
V1 V2
V3 V4
Which leads look at inferior wall?
Lead II, III
AVF
Which lead looks at no specific view?
AVR
Left anterior descending artery supplies
anterior wall
Right coronary artery supplies
inferior wall
Circumflex artery supplies
lateral wall
To determine an MI via 12 lead EKG you need
Q wave >1/3 the R wave
and/or
Q wave >1 small box wide (>.04s)
in at least 2 of the leads corresponding to wall in question
P wave corresponds with
atrial contraction
PR interval represents
start of atrial contraction to start of ventircular contraction
QRS complex represents
ventricular contraction
T wave represents
ventricular repoarization
in EKG chart, 1 small box =?
.04 second
5 small box in 1 large box = .20 seconds
U wave represents
late repolarization of ventricles/bundle branches
ST segment and T wave define
entire ventricular repolarization method
R wave
1st positive deflection following P wave is called
Q wave
`negative deflection that follows P wave but precedes R wave is called
S wave is
negative wave following R wave
Explain EKG rate countdown
Find R wave on bold line
count down number of large boxes until next R wave
Explain EKG rate HR ruler
place reference marker at start of p wave qrs complex
and count 2 or 3 cycles to get rate
Explain EKG rate 6 second count method
Locate 3 second marker at top of strip,
count # of complete complexes over 6 seconds
multiply by 10