Chapter 39- Cardiopulmonary Procedures

Question 1

What is the number one disease in the United States?

Answer 1

Heart disease

Question 2

Isoelectric line-

Answer 2

Straight line representing a period of time with no electrical activity (baseline)

Question 3

Deflection-

Answer 3

Any movement away from the baseline

Question 4

Wave-

Answer 4

Deflection from the baseline

Question 5

Complex-

Answer 5

Form made up of many waves

Question 6

Segment-

Answer 6

Part of a line between two points

Question 7

Interval-

Answer 7

Period of time between two points or events

Question 8

P wave-

Answer 8

First selection in the tracing

Question 9

PR Segment-

Answer 9

Appears as an isoelectric line

Question 10

QRS complex:

Answer 10

Impulse moves from the AV node through the remaining conduction system structures.

Question 11

ST Segment-

Answer 11

Ends at start of the T wave

Question 12

U wave-

Answer 12

In many cases not seen

Question 13

PR interval:

Answer 13

Starts at the beginning of the P wave: ends at the start of the Q wave

Question 14

QT interval-

Answer 14

Starts at the beginning of the Q wave, extend to end of the T wave

• atrial chambers move from repolarization to a polarized state
• ventricular chambers depolarize and then move into the repolarized state.