EKGs: Lead Me to your Ticker, by Lena Riemersma, PT

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Across
  1. 4. The lower chambers of the heart (adjective)
  2. 6. Two PVCs in a row
  3. 8. Rapid, irregular, unsynchronized contractions of heart muscle
  4. 9. Morphology of the graphic representation of the heart
  5. 11. The upper chambers of the heart (adjective)
  6. 13. "Slow" (shortened form of the word)
  7. 16. The main natural pacemaker of the heart set at 60-100 bpm (acronym)
  8. 17. Letters chosen to represent the features and intervals on an EKG
  9. 18. Dutch doctor who invented the first practical electrocardiogram in 1895
  10. 19. Electrodes placed to obtain a certain view
  11. 21. The number of heart beats per minute
  12. 22. Procedure to graph the heart rate and rhythm (acronym)
  13. 23. "Fast" (shortened form of the word)
Down
  1. 1. Rhythm generated from the right atria (adjective)
  2. 2. When the lower chambers of the heart beat early producing a wide, bizarre wave
  3. 3. The area between the atria and ventricles (adjective)
  4. 5. Large and slightly organized usually unifocal contractions of heart muscle
  5. 7. Every other beat is a PVC
  6. 10. "Flat Line"
  7. 12. Fast, often regular beat generated by the upper chambers of the heart. (acronym)
  8. 14. The secondary natural pacemaker of the heart set at 40-60 bpm (acronym)
  9. 15. A mass of specialized tissue in the heart capable of generating an electrical impulse
  10. 17. Delayed impulses from the SA Node lasting 2 seconds or more
  11. 20. The most common dysrhythmia which puts people at risk for stroke(shortened)
  12. 21. The regularity of lack there of of the heart beat