Cardio Terminology
What is the term for normal heart beat and circulation of blood have completely stopped?
Cardiac Arrest
Blood is a liquid connective tissue that has 3 general functions what are they?
Transportation
Regulation
Protection
What are the three type of blood vessels
Arteries
Veins
Capillaries
What are signs of shock?
Cool pale clammy - Diaphoretic
What is the D/Dx of Angina Pectoris?
Anxiety/panic disorders
Esophageal Reflux
Musculoskeletal Chest pain
This term is defined as a blockage caused by fatty deposits?
Occlusion
How much Blood volume in an average male?
How much blood volume is in an average female?
Male: 5 to 6L
Female: 4 to 5L
What blood vessels carry blood away from the heart and what blood vessels carry blood back to the heart?
Arteries (away)
Veins (back to heart)
Develops from inadequate pumping of the blood by the heart. When the heart can no longer maintain pressure to pump blood to cells.
Cardiogenic shock
What are contraindications for NTG Nitroglycerin?
Ed medication
Head injuriessystolic blood pressure is less than 90
What term is defined as an irregular, or absent heart rhythm?
Dysrhythmias
What contains dissolved nutrients and carries certain crucial proteins such as clotting factors?
Plasma
This blood vessel supplies the muscle of the heart (myocardium)?
Coronary Arteries
A clot may also break loose to become an _______, occluding the flow of blood somewhere downstream in a smaller artery?
Embolism
What is the D/Dx of AMI Acute Myocardial infarction
Unstable angina
Gerd- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Pneumonia
The inability of the body to adequately circulate blood to the body’s cells to supply them with o2 and nutrients. AKA Shock.
Hypo-perfusion
This forms clots, fragments of larger cells that are crucial to the formation of clots, clumping of ______ is the bodies most rapid and initial response to bleeding.
Platelets
What nervous system plays a major role in controlling the vessels diameter?
Autonomic nervous system
What are classic symptom of Hypovolemic shock?
Flat neck veins
Dry mucous membrane
extremities are cold
What is the treatment/ Plan for AMI Acute Myocardial Infarction
12 lead EKG
Labs
chest xray
aspirin 81 mg/daily
The presence ofa thrombus, or clot in a vein, usually Deep in the vein of the lower limbs.
Deep Vein Thrombosis
Bleeding that tends to be dark in color and flows steadily from a wound?
Venous
How many layers does the heart have? Name them! Define them!
3 layers
Epicardium-Thin transparent layer of the heart wall
myocardium- Middle layer
Endocardium- inner layer
This condition narrows or blocks the arteries of the heart, thereby reducing the amount of o2 delivered to the heart.
Coronary Artery Disease
What is the D/Dx of a Sudden Cardiac Arrest?
Seizure
Stroke
Hypoglycemia
Head Trauma