What is the primary pacemaker - ans-SA node
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How does electricity travel - ans-
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SA node to the AV down bundle of His and then right and left branches ending in purkinje
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What occurs if the SA node is damaged - ans-AV node will initiate an electrical empulse
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What is AV node rate - ans-40-60
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What is the purkinje rate - ans-20-40
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what does the p wave represent - ans-atrial contraction and depolarization
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what does QRS represent - ans-ventricular contraction and depolatization
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what is the normal qrs interval - ans-0.04-0.12
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what does the t wave represent - ans-ventricular relaxation/repolarization
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how do you measure the PR interval? - ans-
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beginning of P wave to the beginning of QRS complex
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what is the normal PR interval - ans-0.12-0.20 seconds
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What is the QT interval? - ans-measured from beginning of QRS to the end of the T Wave
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What is the normal QT interval? - ans-0.33-0.44 secinds
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one small box is equal to? - ans-0.04 seconds
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one large box is equal to - ans-0.2 seconds
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Ventricular Tachycardia - ans-wide/bizzare, monomorphic, rate 110-250
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Ventricular Fibrillation - ans-rapid chaotic no qrs no pulse
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idioventricular - ans-irregular wide bizarre QRS, slow rate, NO P WAVES xz xz xz xz xz xz xz xz xz xz
Asystole - ans-no electrical activity no heart rate no output
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1st degree heart block - ans-prolonged pr interval greater than 0.20 seconds
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2nd degree type 1 - ans-longer longer longer drop R-R is irregular due to a drop of QRS
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