Cardiovascular Disorders
This is the name of a blood clot or collection of plaque formed within a blood vessel.
What is a thrombus?
These pads are placed on a patients chest and are used to conduct electricity and transmit the electrical impulses from the heart.
What are electrodes?
What is the normal pulse rate/range of an adult?
What is 60-100 beats per minute.
Skin that is cold and clammy maybe called this.
What is diaphoresis or diaphoretic
A 12 lead EKG requires how many electrodes to be placed on the patient
What is 10
This is the name of a blood clot or loosened plaque that travels from its original site and can block blood flow.
What is an emboli?
An electrical change in the heart in which the voltage of the cells becomes more positive and the cells contract.
What is depolarization.
What is millimeters of mercury?
This diagnostic test may be ordered to get information about the mechanical function of the heart?
What is an echocardiogram?
This is the most commonly used standard gain setting for the height of tracings on an EKG machine
What is the standard gain of 10 millimeters per millivolt
This is a condition in which an embolus blocks a coronary artery, resulting in a lack of oxygen to the heart muscle
What is ischemia?
This diagnostic test may be ordered to get information about the electrical function of the heart?
What is an EKG?
When taking a blood pressure, what is the correct millimeters of mercury to pump the blood pressure cuff to?
160 millimeters of mercury.
This is record of the electrical activity of a patient’s heart
What is an Electrocardiogram
This is the the most commonly used paper speed option on the EKG machine
What is 25 millimeters per second (mm/s)
CHF stands for this disease.
What is congestive heart failure?
What is 10 lead wires?
A tympanic thermometer should be placed where?
What is the ear?
In healthcare, when we listen to something with a stethoscope it is called this.
What is Auscultation
The electrodes for V4 should be placed here.
What is the 5th intercostal space?
This is a condition that occurs when blood supply to part of the brain is blocked or a blood vessel leaks or ruptures within the brain
What is a cerebral-vascular accident?
What is the name of a common ambulatory heart monitor?
What is a Holter monitor? It has 3 lead wires.
Alternating periods of slow, irregular breathing and rapid, shallow breathing is called this.
What is Cheyne- Stokes breathing?
When a patients head is raised to a 45-60 degree angle it is called this.
What is Fowlers position?
This lead is the lead most commonly used to examine a patient’s heart rate and rhythm.
What is lead 2?