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Newman's EKG Technician Study Guide
Newman's EKG Technician Study Guide
Newman's EKG Technician Study Guide
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Employers who hire EKG technicians desire them to possess credentials that prove that they are competent and knowledgeable employees. Having certification is becoming a necessary requirement for EKG technicians if they want to increase their chances with gaining employment. Even though having credentials is voluntary it is becoming a standard by employers who hire EKG technicians within the cardiovascular profession. Certification is achieved by completing education requirements at an accredited program and passing an exam that is given by a credentialing organization. THIS GUIDE WILL PROVIDE VALUABLE GRAPHICS AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE SECOND TO NONE, ALLOWING ACCESS TO OTHERWISE AMBIGUOUS NOMENCLATURE FOREIGN TO LAYPERSONS, ESSENTIALLY GIVING ONE AN ADVANTAGE PRIOR TO TESTING!!!!

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Release dateAug 9, 2013
ISBN9781492369387
Newman's EKG Technician Study Guide
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xaiver newman

Professor Newman has consulted with and advised hundreds of faculty and graduate students in the complexities of the competency based educational design. Along with his 15 years of combined civilian and military experience driven by a desire to provide top-notch Allied Health Education. Professor Newman has set a general academic canonical by prompting an allied health standardization analysis which has been adopted by propriety for-profit academia. Coupled with his dynamic presentation of the allied health subject theorem/practicum, Professor Newman has published numerous scholarly texts ranging from an interpretive series on the International Classification of Diseases 10 edition, to a medical laboratory assistant study series.

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Anatomy of the heart

The heart is a hollow muscular organ located in the thoracic cavity between the lungs just behind the sternum.

Layers of the heart

Endocardium - the innermost layer of the heart.  It forms the lining and folds back onto itself to form the four valves.  It is in this layer that the conduction system is found.

Myocardium - the middle and contractile layer of the heart.  It is made up of striated muscle fibers interspersed with intercalated disks.

Epicardium – the outermost layer of the heart.  It is actually the inner (visceral) layer of the pericardium.

The Pericardium

The pericardium is a sac in which the heart is contained. It consists of the outermost fibrous pericardium and the serous pericardium which consists of a visceral and a parietal portion. The visceral layer invests the heart and is also called the epicardium. The parietal layer lines the fibrous pericardium.  Between the visceral and parietal layers is a serous fluid which serves to prevent friction as the heart beats.

The Heart Chambers

Right Atrium – receives deoxygenated blood returning to the heart from the body via the superior vena cava which carries blood from the upper body and the inferior vena cava which carries blood from the lower body.

Right ventricle – receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium which it pumps to the lungs for oxygenation through the pulmonary artery (trunk) to the right and left pulmonary arteries.

The pulmonary arteries are the only arteries in the body the carry deoxygenated blood.

Left atrium – receives oxygenated blood returning from the lungs via the right and left pulmonary veins. 

The pulmonary veins are the only veins in the body that carry oxygenated blood.

Left ventricle – receives the oxygenated blood from the left atrium and pumps it to the body through the aorta, the largest artery of the body.

The heart is actually a two-sided pump separated by a septum.  The upper chambers consist of the right and left atria (singular: atrium); the lower chambers are the right and left ventricles.  The chambers pump simultaneously – both atria contract together then the two ventricles.

Beginning with the right atrium, trace the normal pathway of blood flow through

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