EKG definitions

Everything is normal, rate is 60 -100

• Sinus tachycardia

• Sinus bradycardia

• Sinus arrhythmia

• Normal sinus rhythm

No electrical activity, straight line

• asystole

• A fib

• Atrial Flutter

• Pacemaker

Atria are irritable and quivering, causing fibrillatory waves between QRS complex

• asystole

• atrial flutter

• A fib

• V fib

Atria firing at very fast rate, causing flutter waves between normal QRS complexes

• asystole

• atrial flutter

• atrial fib

• V tach

Every other beat is a PVC

• A fib

• Atrial Flutter

• Asystole

• bigeminy

Two PVC's in a row

• Couplet

• Trigeminy

• Bigeminy

• Triplet

Everything is normal except the PR interval is greater then .20 seconds

• Second Degree Heart Block

• Third Degree Heart Block

• First Degree Heart Block

• Complete Heart Block

Only wide and bizarre complexes at a very slow rate

• First Degree Heart Block

• Sinus Bradycardia

• PVC's

• Idioventricular

Every beat on the strip has an absent or inverted P wave

• Idioventricular

• Junctional Rhythm

• PJC

• PAC

Pacemaker spike visible on strip

• Complete heart block

• Pacemaker assisted

• Idioventricular

• Pacemaker rejected