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What do the bumps and squiggles mean?

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What is another name for the baseline in an EKG?   show
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What happens at the isoelectric line?   show
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What happens during the P wave?   show
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show 0.10 seconds  
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show The time required for the impulse to travel from the atria through the AV node and to the Purkinje network.  
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Where does the PR interval start and stop?   show
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show 0.12-0.20 sec  
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What can the PR segment be used for?   show
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Why is the QRS called a complex instead of a wave?   show
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How would describe the look of a QRS complex?   show
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show ventricular depolarization and atrial repolarization  
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show It is the first negative deflection (below the isoelectric line) after the P wave.  
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How do you recognize the R wave?   show
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show It is the second negative deflection (below the isoelectric line) after a Q or R wave.  
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show less than or equal to 0.12 seconds  
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Where is the J point?   show
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show 1 mm up or down  
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What might be the problem is the J point is beyond its 1 mm variance?   show
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Where is the ST segment found?   show
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What does the ST segment represent?   show
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The ST segment is ___________ dependent.   show
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The ST segment should be at the isoelectric line. (TRUE / FALSE)   show
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show FALSE; it should be asymmetrical  
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show 0.36-0.44 seconds  
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