Drugs
Headache for sure, BP will drop, burning and tingling under the tongue.
Diabetes
Smoking
High Cholesterol
What are risk factors to CAD that you can control
Nitroglycerin
Morphine
Rest
What is the treatment for angina?
This occurs when blood flow to a portion of the heart is blocked
What is a heart attack
What is resistance against which the heart must pump
It's the most commonly used drug for cardiac and non-cardiac patients if they need it.
Test showing extent of occluded arteries
What is the term given to tissue deprived of oxygen?
2mm ST-elevation in two contiguous leads or a new left bundle branch block
What is a STEMI?
What is pressure in the ventricles at the end of diastole
What is the acronym for Morphine, Oxygen, Nitro and Aspirin
"Choking in the chest" "At rest I'm stable"
Standard ASA therapy for all patients with an AMI
What is 160 to 325 mg tablet
Prefferred method of stopping a heart attack
this measures the pressures of the arteries when the heart contracts; the top number of a blood pressure reading
What is systolic?
What is taking the apical pulse, holding and notifying the physician if the pulse is less tan 60
Fluid filled pericardium to the point the heart cannot pump effectively causes this.
CKMB
TRoponin T
Troponin I
Myoglobin
What are the elevated enzymes indicating an MI?
EKG changes indicating cardiac damage
What are elevated ST segment, depressed ST, widened QRS
The order of the heart's electrical conductions system
What is the SA node, AV node, Bundle of HIS, Right and Left Bundle Branches, Purkinje Fibers
Reduces HR, BP, myocardial contractility Decreases AV nodal conduction Decreases incidence of primary VF
What is a Beta Blocker
Heart Failure, Dysrhythmias Pericarditis
What are major complications following an MI?
Obtain a 12 lead EKG
Measure vital signs
Obtain IV access Obtain initial cardiac markers
Perform brief targeted history and physical exam
What is immediate assessment
this is a test of force and rate of the heartbeat
What is blood pressure?
there are 4 of these in the heart; they stop blood from flowing backwards or "regurgitating"
What is a valve?