Abbreviation for the treatment of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS).
What is MONA?
The condition where cardiac auscultation reveals an irregular rhythm with a corresponding cardiac tracing that does not have p-waves.
What is atrial fibrillation?
The symptom that refers to swelling caused by fluid leaking into surrounding tissues.
What is edema?
A rhythm that has P-waves which appear in a "saw-tooth" like pattern.
What is atrial flutter?
The term that describes the release of the electrical charge causing the heart muscles to contract.
What is depolorization?
The heart sound associated with the aortic and pulmonic valves closing.
What is S2 or dub sound?
The only artery that carries unoxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary artery?
A cardiac test that uses isotopes to assess for ischemia when the heart is "stressed."
What is a nuclear medicine stress test?
Demonstrates the contraction of the ventricles on an EKG.
What is the QRS complex?
Supplies the heart muscle with blood and oxygen.
What is the coronary arteries?
What is Ejection Fraction (EF)?
A rhythm that appears as a "tomb stone"
What is ventricular tachycardia?
This will take over if the SA node stops functioning.
What is the AV node?
The heart sound associated with the closure of the tricuspid and bicuspid valves?
What is S1 or lub sound.
Also known as the Left Main Coronary (LMC) Artery
What is the "Widow Maker"?
Heart rate X Stroke Volume = _______
What is Cardiac Output?
Lethal cardiac arrhythmia that has no electrical activity.
What is asystole?
The interval that represents complete contraction and relaxation of the ventricles.
What is the QT interval?
Change in speech that may indicate a stroke or TIA.
What is slurred?