Interference of the normal electrical conduction pattern of the heart.
What is normal electrical conduction pattern of the heart?
100
Means present at birth.
What is Congenital?
100
Traveling clot.
What is EMBOLUS?
200
Prevents backflow into the right atrium.
What is TRICUSPID VALVE?
200
Muscular & elastic...because it receives blood as it is pumped from the heart.
What is ARTERIES?
200
Device that shocks the heart with an electrical current.
What is defibrillator?
200
This type of anemia is corrected with Fe supplements.
What is iron deficiency anemia?
200
Appears almost exclusively in males. Lack a protein to clot the blood. Minor bumps can cause internal bleeding.
What is hemophilia?
300
Prevents blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
What is PULMONARY VALVE?
300
Two largest veins.
What are the superior and inferior vena cava
300
Battery powered device with electrodes that are threaded through veins and positioned in the right atrium and the right ventricle.
What is ARTIFICIAL PACEMAKER?
300
Disease where the RBC carries less oxygen due to it's irregular shape.
What is sickle cell anemia?
300
Risk factors for this disorder: Family history, Race - African Americans, obesity, stress, smoking, aging: high in post menopausal women, diet high in saturated fat.
What is HYPERTENSION?
400
Prevents aortic blood from backflowing into the left ventricle?
What is AORTIC VALVE?
400
Contain valves.
What are VEINS?
400
Type of pacemaker only sends a shock when the heart's own conduction system is not responding properly.
What is a DEMAND PACEMAKER?
400
Ballooning or sac like formation of the wall of the artery.
What is aneursym?
400
Symptom is angina pectoris. Cold, clammy skin and shortness of breath.
What is myocardial infarction?
500
An aortic valve defect would cause what to happen to the blood in the aorta.
What is back up into the left ventricle?
500
Thin walls that are one cell thick. Join the arteries and the veins.
What are capillaries?
500
Life threatening condition where the ventricles contact randomly without coordination, decreases or eliminates blood output and causes death if not treated.
What is VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION?
500
Bypass surgery is a treatment when coronary arteries are completely blocked.
What is atherosclerosis?
500
TPA - CLOT BUSTING DRUG
What is tissue plasminogen activator?
BONUS: WHAT IS THIS USED FOR? AND WHY?