Sample Certified Cardiac Technician Practice Questions

Try these questions from our free Certified Cardiac Technician practice tests. The correct answer and an explanation follow each question.

1. Which documentation practice BEST demonstrates regulatory compliance for CCT certified professionals?

   • A. Keeping informal handwritten notes
   • B. Maintaining organized, dated, and signed records of all activities
   • C. Relying on memory for routine procedures
   • D. Filing documents only when audited

   Answer: B. Maintaining organized, dated, and signed records of all activities

   Organized, dated, and signed records demonstrate systematic regulatory compliance.

2. A patient's ECG shows ST elevation in leads II, III, and aVF. Which coronary artery is most likely occluded?

   • A. Left anterior descending artery
   • B. Left circumflex artery
   • C. Right coronary artery
   • D. Left main coronary artery

   Answer: C. Right coronary artery

   ST elevation in leads II, III, and aVF indicates an inferior STEMI, most commonly caused by occlusion of the right coronary artery.

3. A patient with an implanted pacemaker shows pacemaker spikes on the monitor but no following QRS complex. This finding is called:

   • A. Oversensing
   • B. Failure to capture
   • C. Failure to sense
   • D. Rate hysteresis

   Answer: B. Failure to capture

   Failure to capture occurs when the pacemaker delivers an electrical impulse that does not depolarize the myocardium, resulting in a spike without a subsequent QRS.

4. Adenosine is the drug of choice for terminating which arrhythmia?

   • A. Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT)
   • B. Ventricular fibrillation
   • C. Atrial flutter
   • D. Torsades de pointes

   Answer: A. Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT)

   Adenosine transiently blocks AV nodal conduction, which terminates re-entrant tachycardias that depend on the AV node such as PSVT.

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