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The Basics Of Understanding EKGs

What generates the rhythm of a heart is impulses or signals that the heart “fires” which triggers the flow of blood throughout the heart. This is called the electrical conduction system.

It is composed of the sinoatrial node (SA node), the atrioventricular node (AV node), the Bundle of His and the Purkinje fibers.

Next you want to understand how each “beat” of the rhythm of the heart correlates to the process of the electrical conduction system.

The components of the rhythm is the P wave, the PR interval, the QRS complex and the T wave.

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The SA node is located on the atrium of the heart which is the top half of the heart. What this SA node does, is that it sends an impulse which causes the atrium to contract.

When the atrium contracts normally it represents the "P wave" which is also called atrial depolarization.

  • Patients who have problems with the SA node normally firing, need a cardiac pacemaker.

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Module I: The Electrical Conduction System

  • Understands the electrical conduction system and how it relates to the rhythm
  • Recognizes a normal sinus rhythm and the components
  • Memorizes the normal time intervals of a normal rhythm
  • Understands the correct locations of a 12 lead EKG placement
  • Able to differentiate between continuous cardiac monitoring versus 12 lead ECG placement

Module II: Sinus Rhythms

  • Recognizes sinus rhythms
  • Knows the causes, symptoms and treatment for sinus bradycardia
  • Knows the causes, symptoms and treatment for sinus tachycardia
  • Knows the causes, symptoms and treatment for sinus arrhythmia
  • Knows the causes, symptoms and treatment for supraventricular tachycardia

Module III: Abnormal Rhythms: Junctional Rhythms

  • Able to recognize a junctional rhythm
  • Knows the causes, symptoms and treatment of a junctional rhythm
  • Understand the differences between a junctional rhythm, accelerated junctional rhythm and junctional tachycardia

Module IV: Abnormal Rhythms: Atrial Rhythms

  • Understands what are atrial rhythms
  • Knows the causes, symptoms and treatment for atrial fibrillation
  • Understands the difference between paroxysmal atrial fibrillation versus chronic atrial fibrillation, controlled atrial fibrillation versus uncontrolled atrial fibrillation
  • Knows the causes, symptoms and treatment for atrial flutter
  • Able to recognize and identify what is a premature atrial complex (PACs)

Module V: Abnormal Rhythms: Ventricular Rhythms

  • Understands what are ventricular rhythms
  • Knows the causes, symptoms and treatment for ventricular fibrillation
  • Knows the causes, symptoms and treatment for atrial ventricular tachycardia
  • Able to recognize and identify what is a premature ventricular complex (PVCs)

Module VI: Heart Blocks

  • Understands what are atrial heart blocks
  • Knows the causes, symptoms, and treatment for bundle branch block
  • Knows the causes, symptoms, and treatment for first-degree heart block
  • Knows the causes, symptoms, and treatment for a second-degree block (I and II)
  • Knows the causes, symptoms, and treatment for third-degree block

Module VII: Practice Questions

  • Understands the different formats of EKG questions
  • Learns important strategies to EKGs
  • Able to apply and interpret an EKG strip

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