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Abbr.
Heart Structure
Electric!
Direction
Bleeding
100
ECG
What is an electrocardiogram?
100
Number of heart chambers
What is 4
100
Sinus Node
What is the heart's natural pacemaker?
100
Posterior
What is the back side?
100
Another name for thrombus
What is blood clot?
200
TIA
What is a transient ischemic attack?
200
The upper chambers
What are the atria (right and left atrium)?
200
Where impulses from sinus node go next
What is the atrioventricular node?
200
Superior
What is above?
200
Used to assess the risk of bleeding
What is HAS-BLED or (HEMORR2HAGES)?
300
INR
What is international normalized ratio?
300
The largest chambers
What are the ventricles?
300
Impulse to the ventricles go through this bundle
What is bundle of His (or bundle branch)?
300
Medial
What is toward the midline
300
Cells targeted to reduce clotting
What are platelets?
400
DCC
What is direct current cardioversion?
400
Carries blood from the heart to the lungs
What are the pulmonary arteries?
400
Records electrical activity of the heart
What is an ECG?
400
Distal
What is the farthest end from the head or trunk.
400
A brain bleed
What is an intracerebral (or intracranial) hemorrhage?
500
LAA
What is left atrial appendage?
500
The source of most emboli
What is the left atrial appendage
500
This interval can lead to deadly arrhythmias
What is the QT (or QTc) interval?
500
Lateral
What is away from the midline
500
Common prescription "blood thinner"
What is warfarin?