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Basic Dysrhythmia Study Guide: Test 2 - 2024, Exams of Nursing

This study guide provides a comprehensive overview of key concepts related to basic dysrhythmias, focusing on essential knowledge for test 2 in 2024. It covers topics such as measuring pr intervals and qrs complexes, understanding electrical activity and its corresponding mechanical events, blood circulation through the heart, the electrical conduction system, and defining key terms like systole, diastole, and cardiac output. The guide also includes information on coronary arteries, heart valves, and chambers, as well as the automaticity of heart cells and concepts like preload and afterload.

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Basic Dysrhythmia study guide test 2|Correctly
solved answers |100% pass | 2024
Know how to measure the PR interval ( PRI) - ✅✅From where the P wave begins until the
beginning of the QRS complex. 0.12 to 0.20 seconds (3 to 5 small boxes) in adults, longer in
elderly people.
Know how to measure the QRS - ✅✅From the end of the PR interval to the end of the S wave.
0.08 to 0.10 seconds. (2-2 1/2 boxes)
Know the normal values for the PRI and the QRS - ✅✅PRI = 0.12 - 0.20 or 3-5 boxes
QRS = 0.08 - 0.10 or 2- 2 1/2 boxes
Know what electrical activity triggers which mechanical event. For example what electrical
event represents atrial contraction? - ✅✅P wave (deflection wave/atrial depolarization);
QRS complex (venticular depolarization);
T wave (ventricular repolarization)
Know the blood circulation through the heart, starting from the superior vena cava and
progressing through the right side of the heart, the lungs and the left side, ending up finally going
through the aortic valve and into the aorta. - ✅✅Suerior Vena Cava - Right Atria- Tricuspid
Valve - Right Ventricle - Pulmonary Valve - Pulmonary Artery - Rt & Left Lungs - pulmonary
veins - Left Atria - Mitral Valve - Left Ventricle - Aortic Valve - Ascending Aorta and coronary
arteries
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Know how to measure the PR interval ( PRI) - ✅✅From where the P wave begins until the beginning of the QRS complex. 0.12 to 0.20 seconds (3 to 5 small boxes) in adults, longer in elderly people. Know how to measure the QRS - ✅✅From the end of the PR interval to the end of the S wave. 0.08 to 0.10 seconds. (2-2 1/2 boxes) Know the normal values for the PRI and the QRS - ✅✅PRI = 0.12 - 0.20 or 3-5 boxes QRS = 0.08 - 0.10 or 2- 2 1/2 boxes Know what electrical activity triggers which mechanical event. For example what electrical event represents atrial contraction? - ✅✅P wave (deflection wave/atrial depolarization); QRS complex (venticular depolarization); T wave (ventricular repolarization) Know the blood circulation through the heart, starting from the superior vena cava and progressing through the right side of the heart, the lungs and the left side, ending up finally going through the aortic valve and into the aorta. - ✅✅Suerior Vena Cava - Right Atria- Tricuspid Valve - Right Ventricle - Pulmonary Valve - Pulmonary Artery - Rt & Left Lungs - pulmonary veins - Left Atria - Mitral Valve - Left Ventricle - Aortic Valve - Ascending Aorta and coronary arteries

Know the electrical conduction system of the heart. ( same as the last test) - ✅✅SA node - AV node - Bachmann's Bundle - *** - Rt & Lft Bundle Branches Know which central nerve slows the heart rate down when stimulated - ✅✅Vagus nerve Define systole (first number) and diastole (second number) - ✅✅Systole - contraction - of the ventricles, blood is driven through the aorta and pulmonary artery Diastole- relaxing period - when the ventricles and atria are refilling lub-dub - lub atrialventricular valves closing; dub - pulmonary and aortic valves closing Define cardiac output (SV * HR = Cardiac Output) - ✅✅The amount of blood the heart pumps through the circulatory system in a minute. The amount of blood put out by the left ventricle of the heart in one contraction is called the stroke volume. The stroke volume and the heart rate determine the cardiac output. Which arteries carry oxygenated blood to the heart muscle - ✅✅coronary arteries The left main coronary divides into branches: