FREE CSC Questions and Answers

Question 1

Which EKG leads show the heart's electrical activity in a horizontal plane?

Accepted Answer

Unipolar precordial leads

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Leads I through III

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Bipolar leads

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Augmented unipolar leads

Question 2

When the SA node fails to depolarize the atria, what is the condition known as?

Accepted Answer

Sinus pause

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Atrial flutter

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Hypersensitization

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Cardiac failure

Question 3

A Wenckebach AV block: what is it?

Accepted Answer

Increasingly difficult AV node conduction showing a P wave not followed by a QRS complex on EKG

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A delayed AV conduction at the bundle braches

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No conduction of impulse from the atria to the ventricles

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A delay in the conduction of the impulse through the AV junction

Question 4

Which type of atrioventricular block doesn't affect how the heart works?

Accepted Answer

First-degree block

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Mobitz I block

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Right bundle branch block

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Hemiblock

Question 5

What are a few third-degree AV block causes?

Accepted Answer

Age, digitalis intoxication, or myocardial infarction

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Hypertension, coronary artery disease, and cardiomyopathy

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Certain drugs, such as quinidine and atropine

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Heart disease and damage from uncontrolled diabetes mellitus

Question 6

Which kind of atrioventricular block patient in particular would be a good candidate for a pacemaker implant?

Accepted Answer

Third-degree block

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Transmural ischemic blocks

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Posterior fascicular block

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Hemiblocks

Question 7

What condition might an EKG with tall, upright T waves or ST elevations be a very early sign of?

Accepted Answer

Transmural myocardial infarction

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Coronary artery disease

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Coronary artery disease

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Sudden cardiac death