Cardiology
The only artery that carries deoxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary artery?
This part of the body controls your thinking and memory?
What is the brain?
The most common treatment for leukemia.
What is chemotherapy?
This is the primary function of blood
What is transporting oxygen?
This procedure is a life saving measure for individuals in cardiac arrest
What is CPR?
A test used to measure the heart's electrical signals.
What is an ECG?
Which part of the nervous system sends messages to your muscles?
What are nerves?
This type of order is given by a doctor to let someone take medication.
What is a prescription?
These types of blood cells are crucial for fighting infections.
What are white blood cells?
This technique is used to remove a foreign objects stuck in a person's windpipe.
What is the Heimlich Maneuver?
The normal range for the average resting heart for an adult.
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
These two things protect the brain and spinal cord.
What are the Skull and Spine?
Vitamin B1 is often given to prevent Wernicke's encephalopathy, which can occur as a result of using this substance, which is processed by the liver.
What is alcohol?
These Y-shaped proteins are produced by the immune system to recognize and target antigens.
What are antibodies?
This type of device is useful for correcting irregular rhythms, such as ventricular fibrillation.
What is a defibrillator?
The over-the-counter medication given to people having heart attacks.
What is aspirin?
This is the term for a nerve cell.
What is a neuron?
This is developed in bacteria like S. aureus when they produce special types of penicillin-binding proteins.
What is antibiotic resistance?
Factor XII initiates the intrinsic pathway of this process, resulting in the formation of a platelet plug.
What is clotting?
This tool is commonly used for injuries that involve large amounts of blood loss. This tool is tied around the wound in order to prevent further blood loss until proper medical treatment can be administered.
What is a tourniquet?
The node that takes over when the pacemaker of the heart fails.
What is the AV node?
What is the name of the condition where the protective covering of nerve fibers (myelin) is damaged, causing communication problems between the brain and body?
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
This type of drug, of which caffeine has similar effects, is given to reduce blood pressure by increasing urine production.
Having one copy of the gene that causes this disease--characterized by rigid and abnormally shaped red blood cells--confers protection against malaria.
What is sickle cell anemia?
A type of shock, occurring as a result of a life-threatening allergic reaction
What is anaphylaxis?