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• Name the leads which represent a lateral wall acute myocardial infarction (AMI)?

Answer: V5, V6, I, AVL

• Name the leads which represent an anterior AMI?

Answer: V3, V4

• Name the leads which represent a septal AMI?

Answer: V1, V2

• Name the leads which represent an inferior AMI?

Answer: II, III, AvF

• What does a finding of S1Q3T3 on a 12 lead EKG suggest?

Answer: Pulmonary embolism

• What do *diffuse ST elevations* on a 12 lead EKG suggest?

Answer: Pericarditis

• What is the first-line medication for a patient with SVT from WPW?

Answer: Intra- venous adenosine

• What is the first line medication used in the treatment of Torsades?

Answer: IV magnesium

• What arrhythmia is associated with the use of medications and sudden death?

Answer: Long QT syndrome

• What do PVCs which increase in frequency with exertion represent?

Answer: Cardiac ischemia

• What is the treatment for LBBB or RBBB?

Answer: No treatment - They are signs of an underlying condition

• Chest pain plus a new LBBB equals what?

Answer: An acute heart attack until proven otherwise

• First line treatment for ventricular fibrillation?

Answer: Unsynchronized cardioversion

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• First line treatment for ventricular tachycardia without a pulse?

Answer: Unsynchronized cardioversion

• First line treatment for ventricular tachycardia with a pulse?

Answer: Synchronized cardioversion

• What are the first and second-line treatments for a patient with a stable SVT at 220 bpm?

Answer: Vagal maneuvers first then adenosine if vagal fails

• Untreated ventricular tachycardia progresses into what rhythm?

Answer: Ventricular fibrillation

• Three PVCs in a row equal what?

Answer: Ventricular tachycardia

• Three PACs in a row equal what?

Answer: PSVT (AKA SVT or PAT)

• Which of the two 2nd-degree heart blocks almost always becomes a 3rd-degree heart

block?

Answer: 2nd degree type 2

• What is treatment for 2nd degree type 1 heart block?

Answer: Observation (pacer only if symptomatic)

• What is treatment for 3rd degree heart block (complete heart block)?

Answer: Pace- maker

• What heart block has no association with P waves and QRS complexes?-

Answer: Third Degree

• What heart block has a long PR interval and never drops a QRS?

Answer: First degree

• What heart block gets a longer and longer PR and then drops a beat?

Answer: 2nd degree type 1

• What valvular disorder has the highest embolization risk when combined with atrial

fibrillation?

Answer: Mitral stenosis

• What conditions does a patient with atrial fibrillation have an increased risk of?

Answer: Stroke - ischemic limb - ischemic bowel

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