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| What is abnormal cardiac rhythm |
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| what is heart damage caused by poor blood supply |
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| what is the medical term for heart attack |
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| The process of the heart pumping in a normal rhythmical cycle of contraction and relaxation is called |
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| What is the recording of the ECG cycle that provides a picture? |
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| What is the flat line that separates the various waves an electrocardiogram? |
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| what is the small portion of the ECG between two waves showing heart activity or from the end of one wave to the beginning of the next |
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| Indicates time and shows an entire wave with a segment |
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| What is the first electrical impulse shown on an ECG? |
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| This shows when the electrical impulse reaches the purkinje fibers. This is the ventricular depolarization of both ventricles |
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| The wave that indicates the resting phase or repolarization if the heart |
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| covered wires that carry the electrical impulses from the sensors to the ECG machine are called what? |
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| this magnifies the heart's electrical signal so that it can be recorded |
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| what are the sensors that pick up the electrical activity of the heard? |
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| What records the motion on graph paper located in the machine by burning the impression on the heat-sensitive paper? |
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| what is the process of making certain that ECG taken on one machine will compare with tracing taken on another machine. |
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| what is the mark made on the ECG paper that indicates the ECG is standardized |
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| what are leads 1,2 and 3 called |
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| standard limb leads or bipolor leads |
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| leads that measure the activity of one electrode on the body at a time |
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| augmented leads or unipolar leads |
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| the six leads that measure in only one direction located in front of the heart and view the heart in a horizontal plane |
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| precordial leads or v leads |
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| A body tremor caused by voluntary or involuntary muscle movement of the patient? |
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| This occurs when the tracing shifts rom the baseline, or center of the paper, and moves over the ECG paper? |
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| this results from electrical interference and appears as small, uniform spikes on the ECG tracing |
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| alternating current interference |
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| When the heart rate slows to less than 60 bpm. |
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| An abnormally rapid heartbeat of 100 to 180 bpm is called what? |
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| What is it called when an electrical impulse starts before the next expected beat? |
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| premature atrial contraction |
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| When a sudden onset of tachycardia measuring 150 to 250 bpm is called what? |
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| paroxysmal atrial tachycardia |
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| what is it when three or more consecutive PVC's and a heart rate exceeding 100 bpm takes place? |
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| these result form electrolyte imbalances, caffeine and other stimulants? |
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| premature ventricular contractions |
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| what is the most life threatening of all arrhythmias? |
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| What is used when the SA node does not initiate or regulate the heartbeat correctly |
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| test that monitors the ambulatory patient for 24 to 48 hours? |
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| a test performed on a treadmill |
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| test to assess a patients lung function |
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| what is used to measure lung volume and lung capacity? |
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| the measurement of the volume of air that can be expired when the patient exhales completely |
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| the measurement as the maximum volume of air that can be expired when the patient exhales forcefully is called what? |
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