Conduction
The heart's intrinsic Pacemaker
What is the SA node?
Blood comes into the right atrium of the heart through...
What is the superior and inferior vena cava?
Endocarditis is inflammation or infection of this layer of the heart.
What is the endocardium?
The gold standard for diagnosing cardiac conduction issues.
What is ECG or EKG?
CABG stands for this...
What is coronary artery bypass grafting?
Conduction leave the SA node and goes to this ____ next.
What is the What is the Atrio-ventricular (AV) node?
This valve separates the right ventricle from the right atrium.
What is the Tricuspid Valve?
Rheumatic fever can cause valvular disease due to this untreated bacteria.
What is streptococcal?
The gold standard for diagnosing heart failure and/or congenital heart defects.
What is an echocardiogram or echo?
This treatment requires healthy blood vessels, typically from the chest, arm, or leg, to be attached attached to the aorta and the coronary artery beyond the blockage, creating a new pathway for blood to flow to the heart muscle.
What is CABG?
Cardiac conduction goes through this just before the left and right bundle branch.
What is the Bundle of His?
The pulmonary arteries take blood from the right ventricle to the....
What are the lungs?
Infections, autoimmune disorders, and heart injuries can cause inflammation of protective sac around the heart know as this...
What is the pericardium?
A measurement of how efficiently the heart pumps blood; specifically, the percentage of blood pumped out of the left ventricle with each heartbeat.
What is ejection fraction (EF)?
A minimally invasive procedure to widen a narrowed heart valve (stenosis) using a balloon catheter.
What is Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty?
Cardiac conduction goes through the _____ last.
What are the Perkinjie Fibers?
After blood leaves the lungs it enters this.
What is the left atrium?
Ischemia to the myocardium is known as this....
What is myocardial infarction or MI?
This crucial cardiac biomarker used to detect heart damage, is ordered every six hours as part of chest pain protocol.
What is Troponin?
A cardiac glycoside that primarily works by inhibiting the sodium-potassium ATPase pump in the heart. This leads to an increase in intracellular calcium, which enhances the force of the heart muscle's contractions (positive inotropic effect)
What is Digoxin?
This can cause a "U" wave to be seen on an ECG.
What is an electrolyte imbalance? Usually hypokalemia, but low mg and Ca may also contribute to a "U" wave formation.
Once blood leaves the left atrium it enters the left ventricle before entering the body through this
What is the aorta?
Elevation in the ECG waveform between depolarization and repolarization is know n as this....
What is STEMI or ST elevated MI?
Unstable angina is a medical emergency that requires this treatment which is also a diagnostic tool.
What is cardiac cauterization?
Antiplatelets are commonly used to treat this arrhythmia.
What is Atrial Fibrillation or A-fib?