ASPT EKG
CERTIFICATION
EXAMINATION STUDY
GUIDE | 150
QUESTIONS | WITH
ACTUAL SOLUTIONS!!
Evatee 10/9/24 ASPT EKG
,ASPT EKG CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION
STUDY GUIDE | 150 QUESTIONS | WITH
ACTUAL SOLUTIONS!!
What is the only vein that carries high oxygenated blood? Answer - Pulmonary
vein
What shows the relaxation of the ventricles on the EKG? Answer - T Wave
What is a condition when the heart cannot meet the demands of the body?
Answer - Congestive Heart Failure
Where are the 4 heart valves located (the innermost layer of the heart)?
Answer - endocardium
What usually occurs when a patient has a very low potassium (K+)? Answer - U
wave
What shows up on the EKG paper when the ventricles contract? Answer - QRS
complex
What checks the voltage that the EKG machine instrument is using? Answer -
Standardization
Which valves does blood go through to go out of the heart? Answer - the
pulmonic valves and aortic valves (semilunar valves)
, As blood returns to the heart from the body it enters into which chamber?
Answer - right atrium
Where does the Superior Vena Cava get its blood from? Answer - head, neck
and upper extremities
What are the two entrance valves of the heart, where blood goes through after
it enters the heart? Answer - tricuspid and mitral valve
What are the pulmonic and aortic valves? Answer - Semilunar valves
What is the fibrous outer fluid filled layer that covers the heart and separates it
from the contents in the chest cavity? Answer - Pericardium
What records the electrical impulses of the cardiac cycle? Answer - EKG
What shows the contraction of the atrium on the EKG? Answer - P Wave
What shows the contraction of the ventricles on the EKG? Answer - QRS
Complex
What is a wave that is not always seen but represents possible low potassium?
Answer - U Wave
What are the right and left atria known as? Answer - receiving chambers
CERTIFICATION
EXAMINATION STUDY
GUIDE | 150
QUESTIONS | WITH
ACTUAL SOLUTIONS!!
Evatee 10/9/24 ASPT EKG
,ASPT EKG CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION
STUDY GUIDE | 150 QUESTIONS | WITH
ACTUAL SOLUTIONS!!
What is the only vein that carries high oxygenated blood? Answer - Pulmonary
vein
What shows the relaxation of the ventricles on the EKG? Answer - T Wave
What is a condition when the heart cannot meet the demands of the body?
Answer - Congestive Heart Failure
Where are the 4 heart valves located (the innermost layer of the heart)?
Answer - endocardium
What usually occurs when a patient has a very low potassium (K+)? Answer - U
wave
What shows up on the EKG paper when the ventricles contract? Answer - QRS
complex
What checks the voltage that the EKG machine instrument is using? Answer -
Standardization
Which valves does blood go through to go out of the heart? Answer - the
pulmonic valves and aortic valves (semilunar valves)
, As blood returns to the heart from the body it enters into which chamber?
Answer - right atrium
Where does the Superior Vena Cava get its blood from? Answer - head, neck
and upper extremities
What are the two entrance valves of the heart, where blood goes through after
it enters the heart? Answer - tricuspid and mitral valve
What are the pulmonic and aortic valves? Answer - Semilunar valves
What is the fibrous outer fluid filled layer that covers the heart and separates it
from the contents in the chest cavity? Answer - Pericardium
What records the electrical impulses of the cardiac cycle? Answer - EKG
What shows the contraction of the atrium on the EKG? Answer - P Wave
What shows the contraction of the ventricles on the EKG? Answer - QRS
Complex
What is a wave that is not always seen but represents possible low potassium?
Answer - U Wave
What are the right and left atria known as? Answer - receiving chambers
