Basic Abbreviations
Hg
What is Mercury?
BP
What is blood pressure?
These deliver blood to the heart.
What are veins?
CHF
What is congestive heart failure?
The top 2 chambers of the heart.
What are the right and left atrium?
O2
What is Oxygen?
FDA
What is the food and drug administration?
These deliver blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
CT
What is computed tomography?
This is the name of the artery that blood gets pumped through as it LEAVES the heart and goes out to the rest of the body.
What is the aorta?
Hgb
What is hemoglobin?
AED
What is automated external defibrillator??
Oxygenated rich blood is shown as this color in textbooks and diagrams.
What is red?
IV
What is intravenous?
The bottom 2 chambers of the heart.
What are the right and left ventricles?
Chol
What is cholesterol?
MRI
What is magnetic resonance imaging?
These are the veins and arteries that carry blood to and from the lungs.
What are pulmonary veins and arteries?
RA
What is the right atrium?
These structures deliver blood to the heart from all over the body, EXCEPT the lungs.
What are the superior and inferior vena cava?
mmHg
What is millimeters of Mercury?
P
What is pulse?
"You're tugging at my heart strings."
What is chordae tendineae?
SOB
What is shortness of breath?
This is a more commonly known name for the small mass of specialized tissue in the heart known as the sinoatrial node which is responsible for generating electrical impulses that make the heartbeat.
What is the pacemaker?