Go With the Flow!
Part of a great vessel: transmits blood TO the body and organs INFERIOR to the neck
What is the descending aorta?
Part of EKG: ventricular depolarization.
What is the QRS complex?
Interruption of blood flow to this heart layer produces angina or AMI.
What is the myocardium (subendocardium)?
This long superficial leg vein is a common donor vessel for CABG.
What is the greater saphenous vein?
Heart valves are tricuspid except this major exception.
What is the mitral valve?
Useful in infants, the feeling of the heart’s apex hitting the inside chest wall.
What is PMI (point of maximal impulse) or apical pulse?
Part of the heart electrical conduction system: intrinsic rate 40 – 60 bpm
What is the AV node?
The celiac trunk has branches which supply the stomach, the liver and this very vascular organ.
What is the spleen?
With regard to oxygen content, pulmonary veins contain ________ blood.
What is oxygenated?
The valve between the R atrium and R ventricle.
What is the tricuspid (valve)?
The name for this system: capillaries <–> larger vessel <–> capillaries.
What is a portal system?
This is said to "hide" atrial repolarization
What is the QRS complex?
Coronary veins drains into this chamber.
What is the R atrium?
In trauma: potential space between the heart’s visceral and parietal pericardium, may contain enough blood to produce PEA
What is the pericardial (space)?
Cardiac output = stroke volume x _______ .
What is heart rate?
The fetal ductus arteriosus closes to eventually become this in the normal neonate.
What is the ligamentum arteriosum?
Another name for relaxation in the cardiac cycle.
What is diastole?
With regard to afferent and efferent, systemic veins are ____________.
What are afferent (vessels)?
The “widow maker” AMI is critical or complete blockage of the L main coronary artery or the proximal portion of this branch.
What is the left anterior descending (or LAD) (coronary artery)?
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Vein joins the basilic and cephalic veins, common site for “AC” IV lines.
What is the median cubital vein?
A patent foramen ovale may lead to complications if it does not close to become this.
What is the fossa ovalis?
Cardiac conduction system:
SA node – AV node – ______ __ ___ – R and L bundle branches.
What is the bundle of His?
Terminal portion of the veins which drain the upper extremities. R and L join to form the superior vena cava.
What is (are) the brachiocephalic vein(s)?
In trauma: difference between systolic and diastolic BP may help to monitor blood loss (general term)
What is (narrow) pulse pressure?
The only blood vessels to originate at the base (or root) of the aorta.
What are the (left and right) coronary arteries?