4.5. EKG = electrocardiogram

Because studying all the abnormal heart rhythms is giving us paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, here're some EKG poems instead.

V-Fib

The dangerous valentine’s fib
what she saw-
           toothed           electrical chaos
hogging oxygen
           no output
rapidly fatal to relationship in
           3-5 minutes

faint pulseless apneic
no blood pressure
           absent heart
acidosis
           seizures

fixed, dilated pupils
cold, mottled skin

           defibrillate--
           won't work if heartless tho



Ventricular Asystole

Standstill
           no impulses left
no depolarization QRS contraction
only P
           sometimes not even that
electrical           silence

inadequate cerebral perfusion oxygenation
           unconscious
after cardiac arrest comes respiratory arrest
           resuscitation

CAB it but
           don’t shock
           don’t shoot
implantable converter
           no magnet
vest that if conscious
           press button to prevent shock
otherwise a donkey’s kick to chest
           Versed 
           Verse 
           V