Heart
This generates its own electrical impulse (AKA prilary pacemaker of the heart)
What is SA node?
This carries blood from the heart to capillaries.
What is arteries?
This lifestyle change is often recommended as the first step to help lower high blood pressure before starting medication.
What is adopting a low-sodium diet (or lifestyle modifications like exercise and weight loss)?
This term describes the heart valve that does not close properly, causing blood to leak backward.
What is valve regurgitation?
When a patient experiences chest pain, nitroglycerin can be taken every 5 minutes, up to this maximum number of doses, before seeking medical attention.
What is 3 doses?
This is the number of chambers in the heart?
What is 4? R/L atrium, R/L ventircle
This carries deoxygenated blood from capillaries back to the heart.
What are veins?
This is the range considered a normal adult blood pressure, according to current guidelines.
What is less than 120/80 mmHg?
This condition involves narrowing of the aortic valve, which restricts blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta.
What is aortic stenosis?
Atorvastatin helps to reduce this type of cholesterol, often called "bad cholesterol," which contributes to plaque buildup in arteries.
What is LDL?
This is the number of layers of the heart wall?
What is 3?
This common side effect of the ACE inhibitor, lisinopril, may cause patients to complain.
What is a cough?
After months on clonidine, the nurse would consider this finding as evidence that the treatment is effective.
What is a decreased or controlled blood pressure?
This condition often causes wet, lung sounds due to fluid buildup from the heart's inability to pump effectively.
What is heart failure?
Women may experience these atypical symptoms of a heart attack, including abdominal pain, indigestion, instead of classic chest pain.
What is atypical symptoms?
This is the amount of blood ejected from the left ventricle?
What is cardiac output?
This vital sign must be checked before giving beta blockers, and the medication should be held if it's too low—often defined as under 60 beats per minute.
What is the HR?
This is the key characteristic of a hypertensive emergency that differentiates it from hypertensive urgency and requires immediate hospitalization.
What is evidence of target organ damage (e.g., encephalopathy, stroke, heart failure, or kidney injury)?
This childhood illness, caused by the untreated throat infection, can lead to inflammation of the heart valves known as rheumatic fever.
What is Strep throat?
This occlusion is often sudden and dramatic.
What is arterial occlusion?
This hormone increases HR, force of contractility, CO, and Systolic BP.
What is epinephrine?
After a cardiac catheterization through the right femoral artery, the nurse should maintain this position to reduce the risk of bleeding.
What is keeping the patient flat with the affected leg straight?
This important electrolyte can become dangerously low when patients take furosemide for hypertension, so nurses must monitor it closely.
What is potassium (hypokalemia)?
This medication class is commonly prescribed to prevent the growth of existing clots and the formation of new ones.
What is an anticoagulant?
Is immediate treatment needed for a ruptured aortic aneurysm?
What is immediate surgery?