Cardio (New)

Question 1

What is used to stimulate the vagus nerve? What does this do to the heart?

Answer 1

• Vagal maneuvers and Adenosine

- Slows heart

Question 2

What is the QRS in bundle branch blocks?

Answer 2

Wide, > 0.12 seconds

Question 3

What meds are negative ionotropes?

Answer 3

BB, CCB

Question 4

How do you reverse a TCA overdose?

Answer 4

Sodium bicarb

Question 5

What BBB presents with a negative QS in V1?

Answer 5

LBBB

Question 6

What meds are negative chronotropes?

Answer 6

• BB, CCB, Digoxin

- “funnel drugs” → slows heart at AV node.

Question 7

What BBB presents with wide S wave in leads I and V6?

Answer 7

RBBB

Question 8

What blocks the vagus nerve? What does this do to the heart?

Answer 8

• Atropine

- Speeds heart

Question 9

What BBB presents with predominantly positive QRS in V1?

Answer 9

RBBB

Question 10

If on the PANCE you see “S3”, what 2 diagnosis could this be?

Answer 10

Dilated Cardiomyopathy or CHF

Question 11

What meds are positive chronotropes?

Answer 11

-Atropine, Dopamine, Epi (think fat-soluble vitamins → A, D, E but drop K)

Question 12

What BBB presents with a LARGE, wide, pointed up R-wave in lead I?

Answer 12

LBBB

Question 13

What meds are positive ionotropes? What do they do to the heart?

Answer 13

• Digoxin, Dopamine (think double Ds)

- Heart squeezes more

Question 14

What disorders present with JVD?

Answer 14

• Dilated CM
• CHF (right-sided HF stuff)
• Tamponade
• Inferior STEMI

Question 15

What BBB presents with a deep S wave in V1 and V2?

Answer 15

LBBB