Diseases
Symptoms of a heart attack.
What are chest discomfort, heavy breathing, nausea, sweat?
Process of exchanging carbon dioxide and oxygen in the lungs.
What is gas exchange?
The infection fighting component of blood.
What are white blood cells?
Difference between cardiologist and cardiovascular surgeon.
Carries blood AWAY from heart.
What are arteries?
What arteries become blocked with in arteriosclerosis & atherosclerosis.
What is plaque?
Circuit that takes deoxygenated blood to the lungs and oxygenated blood back to the heart
What is the pulmonary circuit?
Name of protein that red blood cells produce
Which pays more, cardiologists or cardiovascular surgeons?
cardiovascular surgeons
Found in veins and prevent backflow
Valves
Other name for high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
Circuit that takes oxygenated blood to the body and deoxygenated blood back to the heart.
What is the systemic circuit?
Percentage of blood that plasma makes up.
What is 55%?
Pay of cardiologists
What is $375,000 and $545,000?
Pay of cardiovascular surgeons.
What is $400,000 to $600,000?
Another name for atherosclerosis.
What is coronary artery disease?
This chamber of the heart gets blood that comes back from the body.
What is the right atrium?
What are platelets?
Examples of surgeries performed by cardiovascular surgeons.
What are bypass surgeries, valve repairs, heart transplants, etc.
Smallest blood vessel
What are capillaries?
Another name for chest pain.
What is angina?
Path of blood flow in the pulmonary circuit
Right → Pulmonary arteries → Lungs → Pulmonary veins → Left atrium
Where red blood cells are produced.
What is bone marrow?
Difference between cardiothoracic surgeon and cardiovascular surgeon.
Cardiothoracic surgeons operate on all structures within the chest (heart, lungs, esophagus, trachea), whereas cardiovascular surgeons focus specifically on the heart and major blood vessels
Part of heart used for blood testing
What are veins?