Arrhythmia monitor technician quiz - heart monitor test

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You are performing your duties as an arrhythmia monitoring technician.


about 3–5 minutes

You are performing your duties as an arrhythmia monitoring technician.

Question 1 of 5

You are watching the monitors on a telemetry floor when suddenly the following rhythm appears in one of the rooms. You should
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Question 2 of 5

A rhythm in which the PR interval lengthens and lengthens until a QRS complex is dropped. The PR again begins to lengthen until once again a QRS complex is dropped. If you hold the strip away from you it appears as group beating. This rhythm is called


Question 3 of 5

The following rhythm is
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Question 4 of 5

The following is true of that rhythm.
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Question 5 of 5

The following rhythm is
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Correct answers

  • Notify the nurse immediately, the rhythm is life-threatening.
  • Mobitz type I (wenkebach).
  • Third degree heart block.
  • No two PR intervals are the same except by coincidence
  • Ventricular tachycardia

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Current version
Nov 25, 2014

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