cardio EKG Flashcards
Telemetry can tell you
Rate and rhythm, but a 12 lead is required for diagnosis.
SA node conduction rate
60-100
The flow is towards the electrode what form will it show?
Deflected above the line
Isoelectric line
Lack of electrical flow
If flowing away from the electrode, what form will it show?
Deflected below the line.
Ventricular conduction rate
20-40
EKG can assess
- Heart Rate
- Rhythm (in great detail)
- Hypertrophy
- Infarction (incipient, acute or old) st depressed or elevated
- Axis (general direction of electrical flow) retrograde or usual waves
What is required for diagnosis?
A 12 lead.
AV node conduction rate
40-60
How do you rate?
300,150,100,75,60,50 or the counting and multiplying by 10.
Wondering baseline
It is NSR but the isoelectric line is shifting, why is this line shifting, because of a moving lead
Artifacts,
Crazy movements on the paper that really does not make it in line with anything else that we see.
No wave pform
Asystoli, flat line, dead
How can you figure out the exact number of beats per minute?
Count the small boxes in between two beat and divide 1500 by that number.
1500/25=60
Nverted P wave think…
Junctional rhythm, that the signal is coming from the AV node and going up towards that electrode that the SA node usualy does conduct to.
Unifocal vs multifocal
Uni, ypu see the same shaped anamoly, but multi, you know it is the same type of arrhythmia, but it just look flipped, so you know that it is the same but just originating from a different spot in the heart, so the electrodes display it differently.
What would shorten the PR wave?
If there is something coming other than the SA node, that since the PR section is how long it takes to get from the AV node to the BoH, so if something else starts activating close to the BoH, then the PR wave will lessen,
Sinus bradycardia:
Everything is normal but the rate is slower than 60
Sinus tachycardia:
Everything is normal but just the rate is more than 100.
Sinus arrhythmia:
rate is within normal limits, rhythmis irregular and corresponds to inspiration.
SINUS PAUSE OR BLOCK:
SA fails to generate impulse
I wonder if this is related to heart blocks, try to keep this in mind until I reach the heart block section.
When you breath more it raises yor heart rate because of inhibition of the vagus nerve.
Like at Vegas, they pump O2 into the casinos, you breath more, your HR goes up, all because of the breathing and how it affects your vagal input.