cardiac prefixes and suffixes
Brady
What is slow?
Electrical impulses start in the
Angi/o
What is vessel?
systolic >140 or diastolic >90mm
What is high blood pressure or HTN?
heart rate
Tachy-
What is fast?
The impulse travels from the SA node what node?
What is the AV node?
Cardi/o
What is heart?
What are the risk factors for hypertension (5 out 7)?
What are family history, race, obesity, stress, smoking, aging, and diet?
PAD
peripheral artery disease
-stenosis
narrowing
A group of nerve fibers in the septum are called?
What is the Bundle of His?
path/o
What is disease?
Name some symptoms 3 out 5 for an MI?
BP
blood pressure
-tensions
pressure
Please spell EKG
What is electrocardiogram?
aort/o
What is aorta?
The symptoms of dyspnea, edema, pallor or cyanosis, distention of the neck veins, weak and rapid pulse, cough with pink frothy sputum
What are symptoms of CHF?
MI
myocardial infarction
-centesis
What is surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid?
The terminus or final fibers on the conduction pathways are called
What are the Purkinje fibers?
arteri/o
What is artery?
Treatments include balloon angioplasty, artherectomy, stent, or bypass sugery
What is artherosclerosis?
VF
ventricular fibrillation