Location, Location, Location
A vessel that carries blood away from the heart.
What is an artery?
Specific precautions a patient should adhere to after having open heart surgery.
What is Sternal Precautions
The preferred cardiac rhythm.
What is normal sinus rhythm.
The SA node is often referred to as this.
What is pacemaker of the heart?
The condition where cardiac auscultation reveals an irregular rhythm with a corresponding EKG that has irregular or no real P waves.
What is atrial fibrillation?
Located between the right atrium and right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
The symptom that refers to swelling caused by fluid leaking into surrounding tissues.
What is edema?
A condition appearing as an organized rhythm, but there is no pulse.
What is pulseless electrical activity
The term that describes the release of the electrical charge causing the heart muscles to contract.
What is depolorization?
The swishing sound when a valve does not close completely.
What is a murmur?
The only artery that carries unoxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary artery?
A cardiac test that uses isotopes to assess for ischemia when the heart is "stressed."
What is a nuclear medicine stress test?
Most common irregular rhythm, post open heart surgery.
What is Atrial fibrillation?
The interval that demonstrates the complete conduction cycle of the ventricles.
What is the QT interval?
The Dub sound.
What are aortic and pulmonic valves closing?
Feeds the coronary arteries.
What is the aorta?
Leading cause of death in the world
What is Heart Disease?
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)?
>1-2mm of ST elevation in two contiguous leads on the ECG
What is STEMI?
Order of 4 heart valves, following blood flow, starting in right atria.
What is Tricuspid, Pulmonic, Mitral, Aortic?
Most common spot for blood clot formation in pt's with a-fib
What is the left atrial appendage?
What is cardiac output?
A rhythm that has an inverted, absent, or retrograde p-wave.
What is a junctional rhythm?
The atria and the ventricles work independently of each other.
What is a third degree heart block?
Auscultating a continuous hum.
What in an LVAD?