Week 7 Scholarly Questions and Analytical Thinking
Monday
What is the rate of a wandering atrial pacemaker?
Any pacemaker site other than the SA node is referred to as an ____ site.
What is the rate of multifocal atrial tachycardia?
What is the difference in a wandering atrial pacemaker and a multifocal atrial pacemaker?
Describe the main differences in multfocal atrial tachycadia and sinus tachycardia?
Practice Practice Practice the sinus and atrial rhythm strips in your text.
Wednesday
What is the rate of atrial tachycardia?
Are the p waves of atrial tachycardia similar or different then sinus p waves?
True or False: Sometimes the p waves may be hidden in the T wave with atrial tachycardia?
Is the rhythm usually regular or irregular with atrial tachycardia.
What does paroxysmal mean?
Describe atrial flutter.
What do the flutter waves look like?
Always inspect the flutter wavesdo they have a saw tooth or undulating look on the rhythm strip?
We report atrial flutter in a F wave to QRS ratio. Therefore, what does an atrial flutter with a 4:1 AV conduction mean? What does atrial flutter with a 2:1 conduction mean? What does atrial flutter with variable conduction mean?
Can you measure the PRI with atrial flutter?
Is the QRS normal in atrial flutter?
What type of rhythm may you see with atrial flutter?
Describe atrial fibrillation.
Can you see any p waves in atrial fibrillation.
Is the rhythm regular, irregular or totally irregular in atrial fibrillation?
What is atrial fibriallation controlled?
What is atrial fibrillation uncontrolled?
What is greater health risk: uncontrolled or controlled atrial fibriallation?
Friday
Review all sinus and atrial rhythms. Then review some more! Remember, EKG involves learning the comprehensive language of electrocardiography and thus all tests will have a comprehensive nature.
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