AMCA EKG Practice Exam Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers for Accuracy
Gastro means?
✓✓ stomach
Waveforms may be displayed on a screen called an:
✓✓ oscilloscope
The breastbone is referred to as the:
✓✓ sternum
What are the three layers of the heart?
✓✓ epicardium, myocardium, endocardium
The use of non-invasive and painless ultrasound to examine
the heart, its chambers and valves is known as?
✓✓ Echocardiography
Which of the following actions is helpful in assisting patients
with their needs?
✓✓ Keeping a list of community resources that can further
assist the patient
Automaticity means?
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ The ability of certain cells to produce an electrical impulse
without the need for outside nerve stimulation
Ventricular depolarization?
✓✓ QRS
Contraction or systole of the cardiac muscle
✓✓ depolarization
Relaxation or Diastole of the
cardiac muscle
✓✓ repolarization
Atrial depolarization
✓✓ P wave
ventricular repolarization
✓✓ T wave
Two PVCs in a row
✓✓ couplet
Atrial fibrillation has?
✓✓ no P waves