Cardiovascular
Doctor who created the first artificial heart and kidney?
Who is Dr. Willem Kolff
What is circulatory system.
Your heart is a powerful (blank) that beats non stop to move blood around your body.
What is muscle.
What type of muscle is the heart?
What is involuntary muscle.
What is to move around.
Your heart pumps blood out to your lungs to collect what?
What is oxygen.
The heart has how many chambers?
What is four chambers.
Fatty material that can build up in the blood vessels making it difficult for the blood to flow?
What is plaque.
What is the leading cause of death in the U.S.?
What is heart attack.
Your heart beats about how many times per minute?
What is 60-80 times per minute.
Arteries carry blood toward or away from the heart?
What is away.
Veins carry blood away or toward the heart?
What is toward the heart?
What are 3 signs of a heart attack?
What is chest discomfort, pain in one or both arms, difficulty breathing, cold sweat, nausea, lightheadedness
The heart beats on its own due to this?
What is pacemaker.
True or false. The first heart implant was a success?
What is false.
The veins carrying blood from the lungs to the heart are called?
What is pulmonary veins.
They are the only veins in the body that carry oxygenated blood.
What is the main artery that takes blood out of the heart to the body?
What is ascending aorta.
When was the first artificial heart implanted?
What is December 2, 1982
What are the two ”rooms” at the top of the heart called?
What is right atrium and left atrium.
What are the lower “rooms” on the heart called?
What is ventricles.
What is the largest artery in the body?
What is descending aorta.
Measurement of the force of the blood pushing against thee walls of the arteries?
What is blood pressure.
What are the names of the 2 veins that bring deoxygenated blood from the tissues of the body back to the heart?
What is superior vena cava and inferior vena cava.