Exam 11: Origin and Clinical Aspects of Sinus Node Dysrhythmias

Sinus dysrhythmia is caused by:

Characteristics seen with sinus tachycardia include:

Your patient is experiencing chest pain and has a heart rate of 132 beats per minute. You attach the ECG monitor to see a fast, regular rhythm with a tall upright P wave that precedes each QRS complex. The QRS complexes are 0.10 seconds in duration. This patient is experiencing:

Which of the following rhythms may result in hypotension?

Which of the following dysrhythmias has a heart rate that seems to speed up and slow down in a cyclical manner?

Sinus rhythms include all the following except:

Sinus dysrhythmia typically has a rate of _______ beats per minute.

Characteristics of sinus arrest include:

Treatment of symptomatic sinus bradycardia includes:

Sinus bradycardia:

Sinus arrest is caused by:

Sinus ____________ is a slow dysrhythmia.

Tachycardias that occur with sick sinus syndrome are characterized by a long pause after the tachycardia.

Treatment of sinus arrest:

A cause of sinus bradycardia is:

Sinus _______ is considered a diagnostic indicator of a seriously ill child because it denotes significant hypoxia and inadequate perfusion.

Characteristics of sinus rhythm include:

Treatment of sinus tachycardia includes:

Characteristics seen with sinus bradycardia include:

In sinus arrest the heart rate increases during inspiration and decreases during expiration.