Define It
Uncoordinated muscular activity in the heart muscle, which results in a "quivering" rather than pumping action.
What is Fibrillation.
The heart lies within a closed cavity called?
What is the mediastinum.
What contracts and sends to blood through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle
What is the right atrium
An interventional radiology procedure that involves the insertion of a cardiac catheter into the heart chambers and large vessels via a peripheral artery or vein.
What is a cardiac catheterization
Most commonly used incision in open cardiac surgery
What is Median Add to dictionary
Inadequate blood supply to a localized area related to blockage of vessels leading to that area.
What is Ischemia
What double-layered membrane does is the heart enclosed by
Two phases of the cardiac cycle
What is systole and diastole
Demonstrates the movement of blood through the valves and can be used to measure the ejection fraction (the amount of blood pumped from the ventricles) and end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes.
What is ventricular angiography
Commonly used in cardiovascular surgery, it is a short length of synthetic tubing either commercially prepared or cut from a straight urinary catheter
What is the Rumel tourniquet
The heart muscle contracts to allow blood to be pumped into the aorta.
What is Systole.
Three tissue layers that make up the heart wall
What is the outer epicardium, middle myocardium, and inner endocardium
The sinoatrial node initiates the cardiac cycle. AKA as
What is the heart's pacemaker
Pulmonary Artery Occlusion Pressure (PAOP)
A device that produces electrical impulses that stimulate the heart muscle and is also called ____
What is a pacemaker and what is pacing the heart
Intentional stoppage of all cardiac activity during cardiac surgery.
What is Cardioplegia.
Where does the tricuspid valve and bicuspid valve lie
What is the tricuspid right side and bicuspid left side
Strongest pump of the heart
What is the ventricle
Measured at various points in the heart and large vessels during catheterization
What is Oxygen saturation
A midline incision is made approximately
What is 2 inches below the xiphoid
A congenital narrowing or stricture in the aorta.
What is Coarctation.
What cavity contains the heart and its great vessels
What is the thoracic cavity.
The electrical activity of each cycle is demonstrated on
What is an electrocardiogram
Measured by calculating the amount of blood ejected through the heart per minute
What is Cardiac output
It is divided into how many chambers
What is the heart and 4 chambers