ECGs Flashcards
Premature Atrial Contracts (PACs)
=weird looking P waves=
Sinus Tachycardia
A-flutter;
flutter waves that look like a saw-tooth
Multi-atrial tachycardia (MAT);
2 criteria: 3 or more morpholigically different P waves + tachycardia
A-fib
No discernable P waves; irregularly irregular
Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
- Narrow QRS complexes
- No P waves
- HR is fast
Sinus rhythm with premature ventricular contractions (PVCs);
- P waves are NL and come before QRS, until QRS complexes occur prematurely and become wide
- ST segment goes in opp direction of QRS complex (characteristic of PVC)
V-tach
Vfib
Unresponssive, cannot feel pulses,
digguse,chaotic and irregular morphology
2nd degree AV block (Wenckebach)
longer, longer, longer, DROP (Wenkebach)
1st degree AV block (long P-R intervals; longer than .2 seconds)
3rd degree AV block;
atria and ventricles are beating indepdently;
RBBB;
Wide QRS; “M” shaped
What change are characteristic of hypokalemia?
- flat T wave
- U wave
Hypokalemia