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Download AMCA EKG Practice Exam with Correct Answers. and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! 1 AMCA EKG Practice Exam with Correct Answers. 1. Which patient education process lets you know that the teaching plan is working - Correct Ans ✔✔:evaluation 2. Which of the following marks the ECG paper - Correct Ans ✔✔:stylus 3. Who must be present during a stress test - Correct Ans ✔✔:Cardiologist 4. The pericardial sac that surrounds the heart - Correct Ans ✔✔:allows the heart to expand & contract with minimal friction 5. Making false statements orally - Correct Ans ✔✔:slander 6. Before placing electrodes on a patient's body interference may occur if there is a lot of hair covering their body and will need to be shaved. What would you do prior to shaving? - Correct Ans ✔✔:Ask permission 7. Dysrhythmia means - Correct Ans ✔✔:ECG rhythm differs from normal sinus rhythm 2 8. Contraction phase of the heartbeat - Correct Ans ✔✔:systole 9. Where is V2 located? - Correct Ans ✔✔:4th intercostal space to the left of the sternum 10. If a patient is said to be in asystole the characteristics would be - Correct Ans ✔✔:Rate of 0 and no pulse 11. Premature atrial complexes originate from - Correct Ans ✔✔:atria 12. Which of the following is treated with HCTZ? - Correct Ans ✔✔:High blood pressure and fluid retention 13. When no abnormalities show during a resting ECG, the physician may order an exercise ECG. Another name for this is: - Correct Ans ✔✔:stress test 14. Junctional Tachycardia has - Correct Ans ✔✔:P'R intervals less than 0.12 seconds 5 28. The patient is asymptomatic during the ECG, has a hr of 98 bpm and you notice normal sinus rhythm. What should you do? - Correct Ans ✔✔:Continue recording 29. The point at which the QRS complex meets the ST segment is called the - Correct Ans ✔✔:J point 30. In which of the following will the qrs complex have higher amplitude - Correct Ans ✔✔:When there is fluid in the pericardial sac 31. When a rhythm speeds up and slows down in a rhythmic fashion is referred as - Correct Ans ✔✔:Patterned 32. The 3rd step of analyzing an ecg is to - Correct Ans ✔✔:Examine the P wave 33. A medication that can be used as a local anesthetic as well as a first line anti arrythmic used to treat a true life threatening ventricular arrhythmia is - Correct Ans ✔✔:Xylocaine 34. Tall and symmetrical peaked p waves may be seen with - Correct Ans ✔✔:Increased right atrial pressure and right atrial dilation 6 35. The category of anti-hypertensive meds that will cause vasodilation, block aldosterone secretion and increase urine output - Correct Ans ✔✔:ACE inhibitors 36. Which of the following is the first structure that will be seen when imaging from the suprasternal notch? - Correct Ans ✔✔:aortic arch 37. The wall separates the two superior chambers of the heart is called - Correct Ans ✔✔:Interatrial septum 38. The skeleton of the heart - Correct Ans ✔✔:separates atria from ventricles 39. The heart receives most of its own blood supply via - Correct Ans ✔✔:coronary arteries 40. Regulation of the heart rate, speed of electrical conduction and strength of contraction are influenced by the brain via the _______ nervous system - Correct Ans ✔✔:autonomic 41. The cardio accelerator center - Correct Ans ✔✔:Is part of the sympathetic nervous system. 7 42. How much blood coming into the ventricles flows passsively through the aorta - Correct Ans ✔✔:70% 43. During which phase of the cardiac cycle do the coronary arteries fill? - Correct Ans ✔✔:early diastole 44. During depolarization - Correct Ans ✔✔:Impulses are generated and transmitted when positively charged ions move inside the cell causing the interior to become positively charged 45. The most muscular chamber of the heart that forces blood through the aortic valve into the aorta would be the - Correct Ans ✔✔:left ventricle 46. T wave - Correct Ans ✔✔:Is normally oriented in the same direction as the preceding QRS 47. The intuition of the impulse in the sa node and its movement through the atria produces - Correct Ans ✔✔:P wave 48. What is used as a reference point to identify the changing electrical impulses? - Correct Ans ✔✔:Isoelectric line 10 65. Cardiac output is equal to - Correct Ans ✔✔:stroke volume x heart rate 66. The impulse traveling through the his-purkinjie system generates a __________ on the EKG - Correct Ans ✔✔:QRS complex 67. ____________ detects hearts electrical activity - Correct Ans ✔✔:Electrodes 68. What does the U wave represent? - Correct Ans ✔✔:Purkinje fiber repolarization 69. When the heart is located on the right side of the body - Correct Ans ✔✔:dextroposition 70. A Holster monitor is also known as - Correct Ans ✔✔:Ambulatory EKG 71. Right side of the heart circulation - Correct Ans ✔✔:pulmonary circulation 72. A good source of vitamin K is cabbage - Correct Ans ✔✔:True 11 73. How is patient info written for an EKG? - Correct Ans ✔✔:At a 6th grade reading level 74. During 1-rescuer CPR, the compression to ventilation ratio is - Correct Ans ✔✔:30:2 75. The vertical line on the ECG strip represents - Correct Ans ✔✔:Voltage/amplitude 76. ECG Electrodes - Correct Ans ✔✔:Should not be expired and from the same manufacturer 77. Mitral valve - Correct Ans ✔✔:valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle; bicuspid valve 78. The circulation from blood to body is - Correct Ans ✔✔:Systemic 79. Strips (examples) - Correct Ans ✔✔:Ventricular fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation 80. P waves resulting from impulses that originate outside the SA node are called: - Correct Ans ✔✔:P prime 12 81. Which of the following topics would be brought up in exam prep - Correct Ans ✔✔:Insurance 82. myocardial ischemia is also known as - Correct Ans ✔✔:Angina 83. The heart valves that segregate the atria from the ventricles are - Correct Ans ✔✔:Atrioventricular valves 84. In leads I,II,III, aVL, and V4 through V6, the deflection of the QRS complex is - Correct Ans ✔✔:Upright 85. What can prevent electrodes from rom being placed in their usual location - Correct Ans ✔✔:Amputations, casts, wounds 86. An R-onT PVC - Correct Ans ✔✔:On or near the T wave of the previous beat 87. What takes places as a result of MI? - Correct Ans ✔✔:Portions of the heart muscle die 88. The space between the ribs is known as: - Correct Ans ✔✔:intercostal space 15 104. ventricular depolarization - Correct Ans ✔✔:QRS complex 105. Contraction or systole of the cardiac muscle - Correct Ans ✔✔:depolarization 106. Relaxation or Diastole of the 107. cardiac muscle of the cardiac muscle - Correct Ans ✔✔:Repolarization 108. Atrial depolarization - Correct Ans ✔✔:P wave 109. Ventricular repolarization - Correct Ans ✔✔:T wave 110. Two PVCs in a row - Correct Ans ✔✔:couplet 111. Atrial fibrillization has - Correct Ans ✔✔:No P waves 112. On an ECG horizontal lines measure - Correct Ans ✔✔:heart rate 113. Lower overall resistance in the ventricular bed - Correct Ans ✔✔:Ace inhibitors 16 114. The PR interval gets progressively longer in - Correct Ans ✔✔:2nd degree AV heart block 115. Touching a patient's body without their consent is called - Correct Ans ✔✔:Battery 116. An idioventricular rhythm has a rate of - Correct Ans ✔✔:20-40 bpm