Week 3 Flashcards
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What leads should you not see Q waves?
Right side leads, V1-V3
What do changes in ST segment indicate?
Myocardial infarction
What is the difference between mutation and polymorphism
- Mutation: rare change in the NT sequence, usually but not always a disease-causing attribute (<1% freq)
- Polymorphism: A variation in the DNA sequence that occurs in a population with a frequency of 1& or higher
What is the difference between genome and chromosome mutation?
- Genome mutation: chromosome missegregation
- Chromosome mutation: chromosome rearrangement, ie. translocation
Which is the most common:
Chromosome mutation
Gene mutation
Genome mutation
- Genome mutation is the most common due to for example chromosome missegregation
Transition and Transversion are both type of genetic base substitution. Differentiate the two:
- Transition: exchange base pair that is still in the same class, i.e. purine for purine or pyrimidine for pyrimidine
- Transversion: opposite, purine for pyrimidine
What is STEMI?
What is it associated with?
- ST Elevation
- Associated with coronary vessel total occlusion = MI
What does NSTEMI indicate?
non-ST elevation with ST depression or T inversion = partial coronary vessel occlusion
Hyperkalemia can induce what type of heart rhythms
- Arrhythmias: V tac, V fib, Asystole
Describe EKG changes in hyperkalemia
- Peaked T wave rather than rounded in precordial leads
- Flattening or absence of P wave & prolongation of PR interval
- Widening of QRS complex: more so in extremely elevated levels
Describe the appearance of EKG in hypokalemia
- QT prolongation
- U waves present
- Shallow, non prominent T wave
- ST Segment depression
What is Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome?
What does the EKG look like?
- Ventricular pre-excitation syndrome
- Conduction pathway bypasses the rate-slowing AV node
- Delta wave appearing resulting in widened QRS complex and shortened PR interval
- can also transmit electrical impulses abnormally from the ventricles back to the atria
What is the most common arrhythmia associated with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome?
Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia
Describe visual EKG characteristics of A. fib
- No P waves
- Irregularly spaced QRS complex
Describe visual EKG characteristics of Atrial Flutter
- Sawtooth P wave pattern due to back-to-back atrial depolarization waves
What are the EKG characteristics of First Degree AV Block:
- Prolonged P-R segment
- Benign, > 0.2 sec
Which type of heart block has two types?
What are they?
Second degree heart block has 2 types of
- Type I AKA Mobitz I AKA Wenckebach
- Type II AKA Mobitz II
Describe EKG characteristics of Wenckebach AV block?
What type of block is this?
Wenkebach is Second degree AV block Type I
- Progressive elongation of PR interval
- Intermittent dropped beat (dropped QRS complex)
- variable R-R interval
Describe EKG characteristics of Wenckebach AV block?
What type of block is this?
Wenkebach is Second degree AV block Type I
- Progressive elongation of PR interval
Describe EKG characteristics of Mobitz Type II AV Block
- Dropped QRS complex, not preceded by increasing PR interval
Describe the EKG characteristics of Third degree AV block
- Atria & ventricles beat independently of each other
- P waves & QRS complex not rhythmically associated with one another
- Atrial rate > Ventricular rate such that there are more P waves than QRS complexes
When is EKG flat line considered Asystole?
When the flatline is > 6 seconds
What is a normal PR interval?
Between 0.12-0.2 secons
What is a normal QRS interval?
0.06-0.11 seconds