Cardiac Review
Cardiac
Heart Attack
Heart Attack?
Heart Failure
100
Amount of pressure exerted by blood against the arterial walls during systole or ventricular contraction.
What is SYSTOLIC PRESSURE
100

Death of tissue due to inadequate O2 supply

What is infarction?

100

Chest pain, worsened with activity, lasting more than 5 minutes, accompanied by shortness of breath, nausea, or diaphoresis

What is Typical Angina?

100

Patients with this may burp excessively and feel severe chest pain with a burning sensation.

What is Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease or GERD?

100

Abnormal clinical syndrome that involves inadequate pumping and/or filling of the heart.

What is heart failure?

200
Amount of pressure exerted by blood agains the arterial walls during diastole or ventricles at rest while filling.
What is DIASTOLIC PRESSURE
200
60-100
What is NUMBER OF times the sinoatrial node IS set to discharge per minute
200

A heart attack with a completely blocked coronary artery.

What is a STEMI?

200

Patients with this disease have chest pain, shortness of breath, audible wheezing due to narrowed bronchioles, and excess mucus production.

What is asthma?

200

The volume of blood pumped out in one minute, determined by HR x SV.

What is Cardiac Output?

300
Hemorrhage, fluid volume deficit, medications, drugs, position change.
What is FACTORS WHICH AFFECT PULSE RATE
300

Drugs that dissolve all clots and allow coronary arteries to reperfuse heart muscle

What are thrombolytics?

300

This is made up of deposits of cholesterol and other substances.

What is plaque?

300

This condition presents with chest pain, shortness of breath, productive cough, and fever and often leads to sepsis when untreated.

What is pneumonia?

300

Results in JVD, peripheral edema, fluid retention and weight gain. May have clubbing.

What is Right sided heart failure or Cor Pulmonal?

400
Difference between carotid and radial pulse.
What is THE PULSE DEFICIT
400
The term used to describe a sudden drop in blood pressure that may occur when an older client changes position from lying or sitting to standing
What is ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION
400

Being overweight, smoking, and poor diet

What are risk factors for Coronary Artery Disease?

400

This presents with a sudden onset of severe chest pain that may radiate, shortness of breath, coughing and sometimes wheezing. No treatments EMS provide help this condition and the patient will deteriorate until arrival at the ED.

What is a PE?

400
Results in pulmonary congestion, shortness of breath, and orthopnea. Crackles may be heard on auscultation.
What is LEFT SIDED HEART FAILURE
500
Pacemaker of the heart
What is SINO ATRIAL NODE (SA NODE)
500

dissolves clots in the coronary or cerebral arteries

What is Thrombolytic Therapy?

500

The presence of these differentiates UA from NSTEMI

What are no positive biomarkers for cardiac necrosis being present?

500

This condition presents with chest pain, hyperventilation, sweating, palpitations, and a feeling of choking.

What is a panic attack?

500

What is the purpose of diuretics in the treatment of Heart Failure

What is reduce preload?

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