Circulatory 1
These thin blood vessels return deoxygenated
blood back to the heart
Veins
fibrillatory movements affecting the ventricles of the
heart, is immediately life threatening and treated with defibrillation
Ventricular fibrillation
Cutting into the chest, such as during heart surgery
Thoracotomy
Descriptive term for an elevated heart rate
Tachycardia
The period when the heart contracts and blood pressure peaks
Systole
receives oxygen-poor blood from the body and pumps it to the right ventricle
right atrium
carry deoxygenated blood away from the heart to the lungs
pulmonary arteries
largest veins in the body and connect to the right side of the heart
The superior and inferior vena cavae
carries deoxygenated blood from the upper part of the body
superior vena cava
pumps the oxygen-poor blood to the lungs
right ventricle
This type of echocardiogram is invasive.
The patient swallows a camera down their
esophagus (tube that connect the mouth
and stomach) and pictures are taken of the
heart from inside the body
Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE)
Noninvasive (does not “invade” the interior
of the body) echocardiogram
Transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE)
This circuit involves the transport of deoxygenated blood from the right lower chamber of the heart, called the right ventricle, into the lungs via the pulmonary arteries. Oxygenated blood then returns to the heart via the pulmonary veins.
Pulmonary Circut
a life-threatening blockage of an artery in the lung by a blood clot
pulmonary embolism
the smallest veins and receive blood from capillaries
venules