A&P I
The heart has how many chambers?
What is 4?
On finding an unresponsive patient believed to be in cardiac arrest, you would first check for a...?
What is pulse?
What does it mean when a patient has “crackles” in the lungs during a cardiac assessment?
What is pulmonary edema (left-sided heart failure)?
The letters CHF stand for this cardiac disease.
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
This drug halts the formation of new clots by preventing platelets from clumping
What is aspirin?
What is the SA node?
What is the first action after confirming a pulseless, unresponsive patient?
What is begin CPR?
JVD (jugular venous distention) can be an indication of this cardiac complication.
What is a symptom right-sided heart failure?
This condition is commonly characterized by crushing chest pain that radiates to the left arm and neck
What is Acute Coronary Syndrome or MI?
What is the correct dose for nitroglycerin?
What is 0.4 mg?
This heart chamber is typically the strongest as it needs to pump a lot of blood very far
What is the left ventricle?
What is the correct compression-to-ventilation ratio for an adult in cardiac arrest?
What is 30:2?
These are two symptoms of an acute MI.
weakness, nausea, sweating, chest pain/discomfort/pressure, jaw/arm/back/abd/neck pain, nausea/vomiting, pink frothy sputum, cardiac arrest.
What is a tear in the inner layer of the aorta allowing blood to separate the wall layers?
What is an aortic dissection?
Correct dose of Aspirin in a cardiac emergency.
What is 324mg?
The heart perfuses itself via these 2 arteries
What is the coronary arteries?
What should an EMT do immediately after the AED delivers a shock?
What is resume chest compressions immediately?
This test records electrical activity from the heart and prints the results off in a strip
What is an ECG?
This condition is characterized by a thickened arterial wall
What is arteriosclerosis or coronary artery disease.
How is nitroglycerin tablet administered to a patient?
What is sublingual?
This valve is located between the right atrium and right ventricle
What is the tricuspid valve?
These are the two cardiac arrhythmias that require a "shock".
v-tach and v-fib
Name 1 population that often presents with atypical ACS symptoms
What is women, diabetics, geriatrics, or heart failure patients?
This is a clot that has broken off and is moving through circulation
What is an embolism?
Nitroglycerin does what to the coronary arteries of the heart?
What is Dilates.