Test 4/1515 Arrhythmias Flashcards
OR or O.R.
Operating room
ABP
Arterial Blood Pressure
Oz
Ounce
Itis
Inflammation
Hema
Blood
Phlebo
Vein
Pneumo
Air lungs
Cardio
Heart
Cranio
Skull
Hypertension
High Blood Pressure
What is ARRHYTHMIA
Condition where the heart beats with an irregular or abnormal rhythm.
Literally means without rhythm
Normal Rhythm
Equal distance between similar waves
Irregular Rhythms
Rhythms that lack a constant duration between cycles
Sinus Arrhythmia
All P waves are identical
P QRST are usually normal
Timing of the cycles are irregular
Increases in inspiration
Decreases in expiration
Wandering pacemaker
Changing position of pacemaker discharge
From focus to focus
P wave shapes vary
The rate is less than 100
What is MAT?
Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia
Ectopic Foci
Atria
AV function
Ventricles
Atria in Ectopic Foci
See a P prime wave look different than P waves generated by SA node
AV function in ectopic foci
There is generally no P wave seen however there may be an inverted P wave before, within or after the QRS. This is due to Retrograde Stimulation
Ventricles
See a wide bizarre looking QRS complex
Abnormal rhythms are called
Arrhythmias
An irregular less than 100
P waves shapes vary
Changing position of pacemaker focus to focus
Wandering pacemaker
An irregular where no real P waves only atrial spikes is
Atrial fibrillation
An irregular , P waves are identical is
Sinus arrhythmia