Chap 4 Atrial Rhythms

Question 0

______ reflect abnormal electrical impulse formation and conduction in the atria

Answer 0

Atrial Dysrhythmias

Question 1

______ reflect atrial depolarization

Answer 1

P waves

Question 2

______ results from abnormal electrical impulses that sometimes occur during repolarization

Answer 2

Triggered activity

Question 3

What is a condition in which an impulse returns to stimulate tissue that was previously depolarized?

Answer 3

Re entry

Question 4

This term is used to correctly identify an early Beat

Answer 4

Premature complex

Question 5

A pattern of premature beats that shows every fourth beat as a premature beat is called

Answer 5

Quadrigeminy

Question 6

_______ include rhythms that begin in the SA node, atrial tissue, or the AV junction

Answer 6

Supraventricular arrhythmias

Question 7

What is the most common type of SVT?

Answer 7

AV nodal reentry tachycardia

Question 8

______ is an ectopic atrial rhythm in which an irritable site within the atria fires regularly at a very rapid rate, producing F waves on that ECG

Answer 8

Atrial flutter

Question 9

________ occurs because of altered automaticity in one or several rapidly firing sites in the atria or reentry involving one or more circuits in the atria

Answer 9

Atrial fibrillation