A Study On The Cardiac Rhythm

EKG is an electrocardiogram, a machine used to check on problems with your electrical activity with your heart. An electrocardiogram machine translates the heart’s electrical pattern into lines that specific professionals can read it. The first EKG was made by Willem Einthoven, a Dutch Java island (now called Indonesia) born citizen. Willem was born the 21st day of May 1860. His father, Jacob Einthoven, was born and educated in Groningen (Netherlands). His father was also

Electrodes must be placed in the correct landmarks to prevent misinterpretation of the ECG. If the electrodes are placed incorrectly, the ECG may read as ST changes, electrical axis, location of bundle branch blocks and location of infarcts (Riddle, 2008, para. 5). During the ECG, a total of 10 electrodes are applied to the patient. Six electrodes (V1-V6) are placed on the anterior chest in the proper anatomical landmarks, and these leads must be placed precisely for an accurate ECG interpretation. Electrodes V1 and V2 are placed on the fourth intercostal space with V1 on the right and V2 on the left (Riddle, 2008). Electrodes V3-V6 are placed on the left chest wall on the fifth intercostal space in the following order: V3 to the right of V4, V4 at the midclavicular line, V5 to the right of V6, V6 to the midaxillary line (Riddle, 2008). The remaining four electrodes are placed on both upper and lower extremities without touching the chest.

12 Lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) - There are typical changes to the normal pattern of the ECG in a heart attack. Patterns that occur include pathological Q waves and ST elevation (Koutoukidis, Stainton & Hughson 2013, p. 505). However, it is possible to have a normal ECG even if a patient has had a heart attack. The indicators for this test include: suspected myocardial infarction, suspected pulmonary embolism, perceived cardiac dysrhythmias, fainting or collapse, a third heart sound, fourth heart sound, a cardiac murmur or other findings to indicate structural heart disease. The

43 percent of alarm conditions indicated non-critical, and “generally non-actionable,” events; 38 percent of alarm conditions indicated premature ventricular complexes (PVCs), which, since a landmark 1988 Cardiac Arrhythmic Suppression Trial (CAST) study, are no longer treated; and 3.6 percent of alarm

Cardiac dysrhythmias come in different degrees of severity. There are heart conditions that you are able to live with and manage on a daily basis and those that require immediate attention. Atrial Fibrillation is one of the more frequently seen types of dysrhythmias (NIH, 2011). The best way to diagnosis a heart condition is by reading a cardiac strip (Ignatavicius &Workman, 2013). Cardiac strips play an chief part in the nursing world allowing the nurse and other trained medical professionals to interpret what the heart is doing. In a normal strip, one can clearly identify a P wave before every QRS complex, which is then followed by a T wave; in Atrial Fibrillation, the Sinoatrial node fires irregularly causing there to be no clear P

The EKG is read by a doctor or specialist, such as an internist, family medicine doctor, electrophysiologist, cardiologist, anesthesiologist, or surgeon. The doctor will look at the pattern of spikes and dips on your EKG to check the electrical activity in different parts of your heart. The spikes and dips are grouped into different sections that show how your heart is working

In the evaluation of patients with chest pain, the preliminary ECG is a more clear-cut tool for early risk stratification with more recent recommendations indicating that ECG should be performed as early as possible, within 10 minutes of ED admittance. Early indicators associated with MI or ischemic complication such as ST segment elevation or depression allows rapid treatment aligning with the indicated complication. While the ECG may reveal significant indicators in certain situations, in other circumstances findings may be limited due to low diagnostic sensitivity

12 lead EKG: It is one of the tools for initial evaluation of patients suspected of coronary syndromes such as MI. It as a sensitivity of 80% (Kreatsoulas et al., 2016). ST segment changes of elevation or depression, left bundle branch block, presence of Q waves, new onset of T wave inversion are suggestive of ischemic changes of heart. In this case, then Intervention for cardiac catheterization with stent placement may be required (McConaghy & Oza, 2013).

What is one thing that you taught your patient? Why did you pick this topic? Was your teaching effective? Why or why not? What could you have tried to do differently to be more effective? Did you document your teaching? One thing that I taught my patient was that his opioid medications are what are causing him to be constipated. This topic came up because he mentioned to me that he hasn’t had a bowel movement for a few days now. I notified the nurse about the patient being constipated, as well as, I educated my patient on importance of continuing to notify a nurse about being constipated. My teaching was effective because the patient continued to notify the nurse and received Senna. I thought my teaching was

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This evidence can be translated into practice in several ways. An astounding “80-99% of EKG monitor alarms are false or insignificant” (Sendelbach & Funk, 2013.) First, continuous cardiac and oxygenation alarms cannot be turned off, but alarm parameters may be changed on an individualized basis depending on their baseline data. For example, the patient comes in with tachycardia so adjust

ECG stands for electrocardiogram this is simply used to record the electrical activity of the heart this is done by sticking them on the chest. This allows ECG machine to record electrical signals of the heart. ECG should monitor during surgery at all time this is to detect any changes for instance, cardiac arrest that could potentially lead to death (Harley & Hore, 2012). There is also a chance that cardiac arrhythmia could occur during anaesthesia therefore it is important to ensure that the ECG monitor is correctly placed the reason for this is because when ECG monitor is incorrectly placed the anaesthetic machine shows an abnormal sequence this includes inconsistent sounds that doesn’t have a rhythm this indicates either there something

ECG, which stands for Electrocardiography, is a common cardiac test prescribed to heart patients. Also referred to as EKG, the test is performed to record the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time. The process uses electrodes to detect the tiny electrical change on the skin that are arisen by the heart muscle depolarizing with each heartbeat.

Recording an electrocardiogram or ECG, is a procedure which is performed daily all over the United Kingdom by thousands of healthcare workers and in particular nurses (Jacobson, 2000). The way in which this procedure is performed varies from geographical location to location and occasionally even more so, between staff on the same ward (Amos, 2000). This reason stated by Amos (2000), formed the basis of my decision to choose this topic.

The electrocardiogram (EKG) is a simple test that measures the heart's electrical activity (Donahue p. 35). The most widely used screening test is the exercise EKG, or stress test.