Platelets, Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, and Plasma
100
Where does the blood first enter the heart?
Superior Vena Cava
100
What is normal Blood Pressure?
What is 120/80
100
What is anemia?
It is a disease that is caused by a lack of red blood cells.
100
How much blood is actually plasma?
What is 50%
200
What is Hemophilia?
The inability to form blood clots
200
What starts the heartbeat?
SA Node
200
what is hypertension
What is high blood pressure
200
What is myocardial Infarction?
It is the medical terminology for a heart attack.
200
How many red blood cells are there in a drop of blood?
What is 5-6 million
300
What is the blood mostly composed of?
Plasma
300
What makes the lub sound (what valves are shut/open)?
When the tricuspid and bicuspid valves close
300
what measures blood pressure
What is a Sphygmomanometer
300
What is arrhythmia?
A change or uneven beat in a heart, either can be very fast or very slow.
300
The average human heart pumps ___ gallons of blood per day.
What is 1600
400
Get rid of Carbon dioxide, and bring oxygen to cells
What is the function of Red Blood Cells?
400
What are the four steps of contraction in the heart?
SA Node -> AV Node -> Bundle of Hiss -> Purkinje Fibers
400
what is systolic blood pressure?
What is the force of the blood pushing against the arterial walls during ventricular contaction
400
What is atherosclerosis?
It is the hardening of the arteries.
400
If you placed all of the blood vessels in your body end to end, how far would they reach?
What is 60,000
500
How does the blood travel through the heart
Superior vena cava -> Right atria -> tricuspid valve -> Right Ventricle -> pulmonary valve -> pulmonary arteries -> lungs -> pulmonary veins -> left atria -> bicuspid valve -> left ventricle -> aortic valve -> aortic arch -> to the rest of the body
500
What are the semilunar valves?
Pulmonary and Aortic Valves
500
why don't we see atrial re-polarization on an ECG?
What is it is covered by the QRS complex (ventricle contraction).
500
What is the generic name for cardiomyopathy? Why is it bad?
It is an enlarged heart, this causes the hearts ability to pump blood through the body is weakened.
500
The first recorded open heart surgery was performed in...