Location, Location, Location
Randomness
The Beat Goes On (hopefully)
Cycling is Fun
Do you hear what I hear?
100
A vessel that carries blood away from the heart.
What is an artery?
100
Specialized nursing care focused on the optimization of cardiovascular health across the lifespan.
What is cardiovascular nursing?
100
The preferred cardiac rhythm.
What is normal sinus rhythm.
100
The SA node is often referred to as this.
What is pacemaker of the heart?
100
The condition where cardiac auscultation reveals an irregular rhythm with a corresponding cardiac tracing that does not have p-waves.
What is atrial fibrillation?
200
Located between the right atrium and right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
200
The symptom that refers to swelling caused by fluid leaking into surrounding tissues.
What is edema?
200
A rhythm that has an inverted, absent, or retrograde p-wave.
What is a junctional rhythm?
200
The term that describes the release of the electrical charge causing the heart muscles to contract.
What is depolorization?
200
The Dub sound.
What are aortic and pulmonic valves closing?
300
The only artery that carries unoxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary artery?
300
A cardiac test that uses isotopes to assess for ischemia when the heart is "stressed."
What is a nuclear medicine stress test?
300
The atria and the ventricles work independently of each other.
What is a third degree heart block?
300
Demonstrates the coordination of the ventricles.
What is the QRS complex?
300
The swishing sound when a valve does not close completely.
What is a murmur?
400
Feeds the coronary arteries.
What is the aorta?
400
Sounds like Kentucky and is associated an adult with congestive heart failure.
What is an S3 heart sound?
400
A condition appearing as an organized rhythm, but there is no pulse.
What is pulseless electrical activity
400
The slight delay here allows the ventricles to fill.
What is the AV node?
400
The heart sound associated with hypertension.
What is S4?
500
The major artery that provides blood and oxygen to the SA node and AV node.
What is the right coronary artery (RCA)?
500
Heart rate, contractility, preload, and afterload.
What is are the four influences on cardiac output?
500
A rhythm that has more p-waves than QRS complexes with a progressively longer PR interval.
What is the second degree heart block: Mobitz 1 (Weinkebache)?
500
The interval that demonstrates the complete conduction cycle of the ventricles.
What is the QT interval?
500
Change is speech that may indicate a stroke or TIA.
What is slurred?
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