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Clinical Medical Assistant Certification

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1. Holter Monitor
Patients tremors or shaking the wires
Waveform plus a segment
Has 5 electrodes that are all applied to the anterior trunk.
Faces down and to the left.

2. Sympathetic Nervous System
LL positive - RA negative.
Positive deflection following the T - Wave
Several waveforms
Increase Heart Rate.

3. Tricuspid
Located between the right atrium and right ventricle.
When the cell recovers its negative charge - resulting in relaxation.
Decrease Heart Rate.
Primary pacemaker of the heart - has a normal firing rate of 60-100 bpm. Found just below the opening of the superior vena cava.

4. Auscultation
Tapping or striking the body.
Listening
Ability of a cardiac cell to generate its own impulse.
Decrease Heart Rate.

5. Epicardium
Outtermost layer.
Premature ventricular contractions - Ventricles contract before they should show up on the EKG with NO P - WAVE
LL positive - RA negative.
Observing

6. The Apex of the Heart
Can produce deflections that are rapid and look like atrial flutter - caused by electrical interference
Left and right atrium
Faces down and to the left.
Line between two waveforms.

7. Wandering Baseline
Outtermost layer.
Ability of a cardiac cell to generate its own impulse.
Caused by gel or lotion - also tension on the wires.
Initial negative deflection caused by ventricular depolarization.

8. ST Segment
Represent the time of ventricle contraction and the begining of repolarization of both ventricles
Middle layer of the heart.
Left and right atrium
Loose electrode or cables or frayed or broken wires.

9. Where do you find oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?
Tapping or striking the body.
Autonomic nervous system.
Left and right atrium
Line between two waveforms.

10. Limb Leads
Interval between two R - Waves
bipolar and 3 augmented.
Using Touch.
1mv will cause a deflection of 10mm

11. Inspection
Observing
Used to measure blood pressure.
Dysrhythmia
Decrease Heart Rate.

12. T - Wave
The deflection caused by ventricular repolarization
Observing
Increase Heart Rate.
Waveform plus a segment

13. Automatic Nervous System
40-60 bpm
Electrical event that result in contraction
Autonomic nervous system.
Caused by gel or lotion - also tension on the wires.

14. Pericardium
Ability of a cardiac cell to generate its own impulse.
The outtermost layer of the heart. This is the sac that contains the heart.
bipolar and 3 augmented.
Decrease Heart Rate.

15. SA Node
Represents ventricular depolarization (activation)
Primary pacemaker of the heart - has a normal firing rate of 60-100 bpm. Found just below the opening of the superior vena cava.
Can produce deflections that are rapid and look like atrial flutter - caused by electrical interference
Forceful heartbeat felt by the patient

16. Sphygmanometer
0.1mv
LA positive - RA negative.
Innermost layer of the heart.
Used to measure blood pressure.

17. Segment
Left and right atrium
Line between two waveforms.
Using Touch.
Represents ventricular depolarization (activation)

18. Parasympathetic Nervous System
Initial negative deflection caused by ventricular depolarization.
Innermost layer of the heart.
Marks the paper using heat.
Decrease Heart Rate.

19. Complex
Represent the time of ventricle contraction and the begining of repolarization of both ventricles
Loose electrode or cables or frayed or broken wires.
Several waveforms
Represents the time of ventricular contraction and the begining of ventricular repolarization.

20. Endocardium
Initial negative deflection caused by ventricular depolarization.
Sensors
Tapping or striking the body.
Innermost layer of the heart.

21. Palpitation
Forceful heartbeat felt by the patient
Faces down and to the left.
Initial negative deflection caused by ventricular depolarization.
Line between two waveforms.

22. Percussion
Initial negative deflection caused by ventricular depolarization.
Tapping or striking the body.
bipolar and 3 augmented.
Outtermost layer.

23. Myocardium
Movement away from the isometric line - either positive or negative.
Middle layer of the heart.
Represents the time of ventricular contraction and the begining of ventricular repolarization.
Can produce deflections that are rapid and look like atrial flutter - caused by electrical interference

24. Another name for electrodes
Sensors
Primary pacemaker of the heart - has a normal firing rate of 60-100 bpm. Found just below the opening of the superior vena cava.
The outtermost layer of the heart. This is the sac that contains the heart.
.12-.20

25. Stylus
Using Touch.
Represent the time of ventricle contraction and the begining of repolarization of both ventricles
Marks the paper using heat.
Middle layer of the heart.

26. Depolarization
Used to measure blood pressure.
Electrical event that result in contraction
Loose electrode or cables or frayed or broken wires.
1mv will cause a deflection of 10mm

27. R - Wave
Represents the time of ventricular contraction and the begining of ventricular repolarization.
Several waveforms
Increase Heart Rate.
The first positive deflection produced by ventricular depolarization.

28. Somatic Tremors
bipolar and 3 augmented.
Patients tremors or shaking the wires
1mv will cause a deflection of 10mm
Represents the time of ventricular contraction and the begining of ventricular repolarization.

29. Q - Wave
Represent the time of ventricle contraction and the begining of repolarization of both ventricles
Initial negative deflection caused by ventricular depolarization.
Has 5 electrodes that are all applied to the anterior trunk.
Ability of a cardiac cell to generate its own impulse.

30. S - Wave
Increase Heart Rate.
The first negative delfection that follows the R - Wave
Left and right atrium
Patients tremors or shaking the wires

31. Normal Standardization Mark
1mv will cause a deflection of 10mm
LA positive - RA negative.
The first positive deflection produced by ventricular depolarization.
Electrical event that result in contraction

32. PVC's
Premature ventricular contractions - Ventricles contract before they should show up on the EKG with NO P - WAVE
Faces down and to the left.
The first positive deflection produced by ventricular depolarization.
Listening

33. Myocardium
1mv will cause a deflection of 10mm
40-60 bpm
0.1mv
Thickest around the left ventricle

34. Irregular Rhythm
Represent the time of ventricle contraction and the begining of repolarization of both ventricles
Dysrhythmia
40-60 bpm
Premature ventricular contractions - Ventricles contract before they should show up on the EKG with NO P - WAVE

35. Repolarization
Observing
When the cell recovers its negative charge - resulting in relaxation.
0.1mv
bipolar and 3 augmented.

36. Diastole
Premature ventricular contractions - Ventricles contract before they should show up on the EKG with NO P - WAVE
Outtermost layer.
Is the relazation phase of the heart.
0.1mv

37. Palation
Ability of a cardiac cell to generate its own impulse.
Using Touch.
Represent the time of ventricle contraction and the begining of repolarization of both ventricles
1mv will cause a deflection of 10mm

38. Waveform
Primary pacemaker of the heart - has a normal firing rate of 60-100 bpm. Found just below the opening of the superior vena cava.
Movement away from the isometric line - either positive or negative.
Outtermost layer.
Sensors

39. Interval
Tapping or striking the body.
An irregular beat - out of normal rhythm.
Listening
Waveform plus a segment

40. The Inherent rate of the AV Junction
Outtermost layer.
40-60 bpm
The first negative delfection that follows the R - Wave
The first negative deflection produced by the ventricle depolarization that follows the R - Wave

41. Length of PR Interval
Primary pacemaker of the heart - has a normal firing rate of 60-100 bpm. Found just below the opening of the superior vena cava.
Represents the time of ventricular contraction and the begining of ventricular repolarization.
.12-.20
Represent the time of ventricle contraction and the begining of repolarization of both ventricles

42. U - Wave
Outtermost layer.
40-60 bpm
Used to measure blood pressure.
Positive deflection following the T - Wave

43. Lead 2
Autonomic nervous system.
The deflection caused by ventricular repolarization
LL positive - RA negative.
When the cell recovers its negative charge - resulting in relaxation.

44. Broken Recording
Thickest around the left ventricle
Is the relazation phase of the heart.
Loose electrode or cables or frayed or broken wires.
Ability of a cardiac cell to generate its own impulse.

45. P - Wave
Left and right atrium
When the cell recovers its negative charge - resulting in relaxation.
The deflection caused by atrial depolarization
The outtermost layer of the heart. This is the sac that contains the heart.

46. QRS Complex
Sensors
LL positive - LA negative.
Represents ventricular depolarization (activation)
Positive deflection following the T - Wave

47. Ectopic Beats
bipolar and 3 augmented.
An irregular beat - out of normal rhythm.
Middle layer of the heart.
Tapping or striking the body.

48. Automaticicity
Autonomic nervous system.
When the cell recovers its negative charge - resulting in relaxation.
Ability of a cardiac cell to generate its own impulse.
bipolar and 3 augmented.

49. 60 - cycle Interference
The first negative deflection produced by the ventricle depolarization that follows the R - Wave
Can produce deflections that are rapid and look like atrial flutter - caused by electrical interference
0.1mv
Dysrhythmia

50. Normal Sensitivity level for running EKG
0.1mv
Represents the time of ventricular contraction and the begining of ventricular repolarization.
Innermost layer of the heart.
Left and right atrium