Mastering Electrocardiography

<p>A 12-lead ECG taken while lying down</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Holter monitor</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Small electrical changes that are detected by the electrodes during an ECG.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cardiac rhythm disturbances, inadequate coronary artery blood flow, and electrolyte disturbances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Electrocardiography.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An electrogram of the heart.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On the skin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Automated ECG interpretation is the use of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition software and knowledge bases to carry out automatically the interpretation, test reporting, and computer-aided diagnosis of electrocardiogram tracings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first automated ECG programs were developed in the 1970s.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The purpose was to test the algorithms and improve the accuracy rate of automated ECG interpretation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Digital signal processing boards enable the digitization of ECG tracings, making automated interpretation possible.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Companies like Hewlett-Packard incorporated automated ECG programs into clinically used devices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The purpose of electrocardiography is to produce an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), a recording of the heart's electrical activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) represents the electrical activity of the heart through a graph of voltage versus time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some examples of cardiac abnormalities that can cause changes in the normal ECG pattern include atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, hypokalemia, and hyperkalemia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The consequences of cardiac muscle depolarization followed by repolarization during each cardiac cycle are small electrical changes that can be detected by the electrodes placed on the skin during an ECG.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The role of automated ECG programs is to interpret the ECG and detect cardiac abnormalities such as rhythm disturbances, inadequate coronary artery blood flow, and electrolyte disturbances.</p> Signup and view all the answers