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To facilitate diagnoses and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias a basic understanding of the physiological cardiac action potential and cardiac conduction system is required. | To facilitate diagnoses and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias a basic understanding of the physiological cardiac action potential and cardiac conduction system is required. | ||
==Cardiac | ==Cardiac Action Potential== | ||
===Phase 0: Rapid Depolarization=== | |||
===Phase 1: Early Rapid Repolarization=== | |||
===Phase 2: Plateau=== | |||
===Phase 3: Final Rapid Repolarization=== | |||
===Phase 4: Resting membrane potential=== | |||
==Cardiac conduction== | ==Cardiac conduction== | ||
===Sinus node=== | |||
===Atrium=== | |||
===AV node=== | |||
===Bundle of His=== | |||
===Bundle Branches and Purkinje fibers=== | |||
===Venticle=== | |||
=Mechanisms of | =Mechanisms of Arrhythmia= | ||
== Abnormal | == Abnormal Impulse Formation== | ||
===Abnormal Automaticity=== | ===Abnormal Automaticity=== | ||
===Triggered Activity=== | ===Triggered Activity=== | ||
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General Introduction
To facilitate diagnoses and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias a basic understanding of the physiological cardiac action potential and cardiac conduction system is required.