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Causes of ch 8
Causes of Cardiac dysrhythmias
Question | Answer |
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Caused by exercise, anxiety, fever, shock, hypothermia, heart failure, excessive caffeine, and tobacco. | Sinus Tachycardia |
sleep,vomiting,intracranial tumors, mi, drugs, vagal stimulation, endocrine disturbances, and hypothermia | Sinus Bradycardia |
Drugs, alcohol, mitral valve prolapse, emotional stress, smoking, and hormone imbalance | Supraventricular Tachycardia SVT or PAC |
Atherosclerosis, mitral valve disease, chf, cardiomyopathy, congenital abnormalities, COPD, and thyrotoxicosis | Atrial Fibrillation |
Atherosclerotic heart disease, mi, chg, digitalis toxicity, congenital abnormalities,drugs and hypokalemia (low potassium) | Atrioventricular Block |
irritability of the ventricules, exercise, stress, electrolyte imbalance, digitalis toxicity, hypoxia and MI | Premature Ventricular Contractions (PVC'S) |
Hypothermia, drug toxicity, electrolyte imbalance, and bradycardia | Ventricular Tachycardia |
Untreated Ventricular tachycardia, electrolyte imbalances, digitalis or quinidine toxicity and hypothermia | Ventricular Fibrillation |