flow state
right atrium > ____________ > right ventricle
What is the tricuspid valve?
This term may describe tiv's heart beat when she's had too much coffee from my three sons and is bouncing off the walls
What is tachycardic?
By incorporating more leafy greens into her meals, tiv is controlling this modifiable risk factor.
What is diet?
The systolic is when the heart contracts and the diastolic is when the heart does this.
What is rests?
When you do CPR, you shouldn't do compressions too fast because you want to allow these to refill with blood to be pushed out into the body.
What are the chambers of the heart?
Also accepted: atria and/or ventricles
right ventricle > pulmonary valve > __________ > lungs
What is the pulmonary artery?
This term may describe Caputo's friend's heart rate after he meditated and slowed his breath.
What is bradycardic?
tiv goes for a run. tiv hates it. but her heart loves that she is controlling this controllable risk factor.
What is exercise/physical activity?
This protein on blood cells determines whether or not blood is positive (has protein) or negative (does not have protein).
What is the Rh factor?
This type of blood has A and B antigens but no antibodies, thus it is the universal recipient.
What is AB+?
lungs > pulmonary veins > left atrium > _________ > left ventricle
What is the mitral valve?
When tiv found out ms. villa was doing daily calculus quizzes again, her heart started beating irregularly. In other words, she had one of these.
What is an arrhythmia?
tiv takes calculus. tiv does not like math. if she took physics C, she would cry. This portrays this modifiable risk factor.
What is stress?
This wave indicates the recovery of the ventricles.
What is the T-wave?
In EMS, we are taught to first assess for immediate life threats with ABC: Airway, Breathing, and Circulation. However, if we see spurting bright red blood indicating that one of THESE has been cut, we do XABCs, X meaning eXsanguination.
What is an artery?
left ventricle > ___________ > aorta > body
What is the aortic valve?
If tiv had a milkshake every day, plaque would build up in her arteries and cause them to harden, giving her this disease.
What is atherosclerosis?
tiv is cool. tiv doesn't vape. tiv doesn't smoke. she's protecting her heart because smoking is this type of risk factor.
What is a modifiable risk factor?
This part of the heart separates the left from the right side of the heart.
What is the septum?
EMTs are now trained to obtain one of these, where they place leads (wires) on a patient to capture any abnormal electrical activity, like an ST-wave Elevation Myocardial Infarction, aka a STEMI
What is an ECG/EKG?
lower extremities > capillaries > venules > veins > ____________
What is the inferior vena cava?
A person may be having one of these if one of their coronary arteries is blocked and cardiac tissue dies. But alas, it is not a criminal offense.
What is a myocardial infarction?
side eye caputo
tiv loves her family, but her genes are predisposed to cardiac diseases. She can't do much to change her genes because genetics are this.
What is a non-modifiable risk factor?
The heart is SO COOL. Not only is the heart absolutely buff, but it also has a protective sac around it like armor called this.
What is the pericardium?
Hypoxia can occur if there is too much of this type of blood in the body, common signs being bluing of the skin (cyanosis) and altered mental status because of a lack of oxygen.
What is deoxygenated blood?