Artificially Paced Rhythms
Objectives
At the end of this chapter, the student should be able to:
- Define an artificial pacemaker. (p 658)
- Define the artificially paced rhythms, and list the underlying diagnostic criteria of these rhythms. (pp 658, 660–661)
INTERMEDIATE
- List the five-letter code system established by the Intersociety Commission for Heart Disease. (pp 658–659)
- List the various types of artificial pacemakers. (pp 661, 662, 663)
- Define an atrial demand pacemaker. (pp 661–662)
- Define a ventricular demand pacemaker. (pp 662–663)
- Define an atrioventricular sequential pacemaker. (p 663)
ADVANCED
- Define an automatic, or DDD, pacemaker. (pp 663–664)
- Accurately identify the artificially paced rhythms on a rhythm strip or ECG. (pp 665–670)
