EKG

Question 1

Treatment for Afib/Aflutter

Answer 1

Digoxin or Beta Blocker or calcium channel blocker, Coumdin, Pradaxa or abalation ; cardioversion

Question 2

Sawtooth

Answer 2

Aflutter; No PR interval

Question 3

How do you distinguish a 1st degree block?

Answer 3

pr interval is longer than .20. No treatment

Question 4

How to distinguish a 2nd degree Mobitz I (Wenkebach)?

Answer 4

pr intervals get longer and then a QRS complex is dropped.

Question 5

How to distinguish a 2nd degree Mobitz II?

Answer 5

pr intervals do not get longer, a QRS complex is dropped

Question 6

If a person has a 2nd degree block Mobitz I (Wenkebach) or Mobitz II and is symptomatic, what treatments do you do?

Answer 6

Atropine, pacemaker

Question 7

3rd degree? is cardiac increased or decreased? Treatment?

Answer 7

No distinguishable pwaves; decreased; pacemaker

Question 8

Treatment for 3rd degree?

Answer 8

Pacemaker

Question 9

PVC & treatment

Answer 9

wide & bizarre QRS, QRS >.12; cant distinguish pwaves; Amarodone

Question 10

Vfib

Answer 10

little or no cardiac output (heart just quivers), no pwave; no distinguishable QRS 300-400 hr

Question 11

Vtach treatment

Answer 11

Amarodone then Shock, CPR

Question 12

Artifact

Answer 12

the person is moving around, maybe messed up a lead

Question 13

Asystolie

Answer 13

dead; epinephrine

Question 14

SVT treatment

Answer 14

Adenison

Question 15

Afib

Answer 15

irregular, no PR interval, no distinguishable pwaves