1. Candidates for implantable cardioverter defibrillation (ICD) are patients at high risk who have:

2. When assessing vital signs in a patient with a permanent pacemaker, the nurse needs to know the:

3. A “sawtooth” P wave is seen on an ECG strip with:

4. Atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentry tachycardia is characterized by an atrial rate:

5. Ventricular fibrillation is associated with an absence of:

6. The nurse needs to teach the patient with an automatic ICD that he or she must:

7. The heart is under the control of the autonomic nervous system. Stimulation of the parasympathetic system results in all of the following except:

8. Atrial fibrillation is associated with a heart rate up to:

9. The PR interval on an ECG strip that reflects normal sinus rhythm would be between:

10. With ventricular tachycardia:

11. A dysrhythmia common in normal hearts and described by patients as “my heart skipped a beat” is:

12. First-degree AV block is characterized by:

13. Ventricular bigeminy refers to a conduction defect in which:

14. A conduction abnormality whereby no atrial impulse travels through the AV node is known as:

15. The total time for ventricular depolarization and repolarization is represented on an electrocardiogram (ECG) reading as the:

16. Ventricular rate and rhythm can be determined by examining what interval on an ECG strip?

17. Cardioversion is used to terminate dysrhythmias. With cardioversion, the:

18. Characteristics of sinus bradycardia include all of the following except: