Key Terms
- atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response
- atrial fibrillation with a heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute
- bradycardia
- heart rate less than 60 beats per minute
- cardioversion
- restoration of a normal heart rhythm in a client with a dysrhythmia
- dysrhythmia
- an abnormal heart rate or rhythm; also called arrhythmia
- proarrhythmia
- the propensity for a drug to create another, new dysrhythmia
- supraventricular tachycardia
- a dysrhythmia that originates from a location above the ventricle
- tachycardia
- heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute
- torsade de pointes
- a dangerous ventricular tachycardia associated with medications that prolong the QT interval
- vagal maneuver
- physical manipulation that can increase parasympathetic activation to treat various arrhythmias
- Vaughan Williams classification system
- a method of classifying antidysrhythmic drugs based on their primary mechanism of action
- ventricular tachycardia
- a dysrhythmia that originates from a location in the ventricle