What is the purpose of the grounding electrode?

The electrode for what lead is placed on the right side of the sternum at the 4th intercostal space?

What is the universal precordial lead color for the electrode placed in the 5th intercostal space at the mid-axillary line?

The first three limb leads are identified as Lead I, Lead II, and Lead III and are all what type of leads?

Which of the following can be made of foam, cloth, or wet gel and come in various sizes from neonate, infant, pediatric, and adult?

Why are ECG electrodes attached to the skin?

On an ECG, what measures the direction and intensity of voltage being discharged by the heart at a specific time?

Leads v4, v5, and v6 may be moved to the posterior axillary line thru the paraspinal line (v7, v8, v9) if the physician wants an alternate heart view based on suspected damage in what part of the heart?

In placing precordial leads, be sure to affix all the electrodes on the left side of the sternum with the exception of which lead?

Precordial leads v2-v6 may be moved to the right side of the sternum if the physician wants an alternate heart view based on suspected damage in what part of the heart?

On a normal ECG, the electrical current in Leads I, II, and III are all moving in what direction?

Which of the following means that the health care practitioner has discussed the procedure, the risks, and the benefits of the ECG and allowed the patient to clarify any questions?

What is the only lead where it is acceptable to place the electrode over a bone?

According to the North American limb lead color code, what color is used for the left leg (LL)?

When would informed consent occur?

What type of leads provide three views from a central point of the heart but only two of the views are of a heart wall?

Which of the following occurs during a normal PR segment?

When there is no electrical activity occurring within the heart, the ECG strip will show as a solid flat line called the ________.

Which of the following precordial lead errors does this ECG tracing represent?

What type of waveforms cross the isoelectric line with part of the waveform being upright and part of the waveform appears as inverted?

Which of the following is calculated by using the horizontal axis on an ECG strip?

The measurement of a wave starts when the wave departs the ___________.

When the heart rhythm or heart rate is consistently or predictably irregular or abnormal, or absent, it is known as a(n) ___________.

During what segment will the atria and ventricles be relaxed, which means the heart is in a diastolic state?

Calculate the heart rate for the ECG tracing below.

__________ is the strength or magnitude of the action potential.

Stress, exercise, general health, previous cardiac events, even sleeping can all alter the heart rate. What type of heart rate does the ECG tracing in the figure below represent?

When the sinoatrial node begins the electrical impulse, which of the following waves is created on the grid as both the right and left atria are depolarized?

Which of the following is defined as a measurable, regularly recurring, impulse of the heart?

The ventricular relaxation phase that is represented by the T wave is also called _________.

Which of the following shows up on an ECG tracing as a curved or spiked line either above or below the isoelectric line?

Another term for baseline is ________ line.

A(n) ________ on the ECG strip is a “time period” with no electrical activity occurring between waves, and if normal, looks like a flat line.

What heart condition do the waves in the ECG tracing below represent?

Which of the following cardiac medications would be given if the indication is an acute coronary syndrome?

The primary difference between the sinus tachycardia and atrial tachycardia is found in the appearance of which of the following ECG tracings?

What heart condition do the waves in the ECG tracing below represent?

What type of heart rates occur more commonly in infants, children, and young adults who are anxious or extremely fatigued?

Which of the following is the absence of any ventricular activity, no depolarization, no pulse, no blood is flowing through the heart, no cardiac output?

Which medication may be given to correct a bradycardic rhythm?

What type of pacemaker ECG reading does the tracing below represent?

__________ is defined as a decrease in oxygenated blood flow to the heart muscle.

In a pacemaker ECG, if a spike appears by itself with no P wave and no QRS complex, it is called a(n) __________.

Blockage of one or more coronary arteries that supply blood to the left ventricle is usually the cause of which of the following?

The ECG tracing below shows P prime (P’) wave presentations for what type of rhythm?

Failure of the heart to pump oxygenated blood efficiently causing cardiopulmonary arrest, is an example of what type of cardiac compromise?

Which of the following cardiac medications would be given if the indication is bradycardia?

Which of the following conditions is where the heart muscle cannot contract even though electrical activity appears on the ECG?

When medication no longer controls tachycardia, which of the following may be implanted into the patient to control these life-threatening arrhythmias?