Cardiac Anatomy
The thick, muscular middle layer of the heart wall.
What is the Myocardium?
The cessation of cardiac mechanical activity.
What is Cardiac Arrest?
This term refers to a narrowing or blockage of a coronary artery causing tissue death.
What is Acute Myocardial Infarction/AMI?
This ECG wave represents atrial depolarization.
What is the P wave?
The first-line medication for symptomatic sinus bradycardia.
What is Atropine?
These chambers receive blood from the veins.
What are the Atria?
The primary survey sequence used when a patient is unresponsive and suspected of cardiac arrest.
What is CABDE?
The development of a blood clot in an inflamed or damaged vein.
What is Thrombophlebitis?
This complex on an ECG represents ventricular depolarization.
What is the QRS complex?
This procedure is used for unstable tachycardia and is synchronized to the R wave.
What is Synchronized Cardioversion?
These structures separate the right and left sides of the heart.
What are the Septa?
Engorged neck veins used as a rough measure of right atrial pressure.
What is Jugular Venous Distention/JVD?
Sluggish blood flow, one of the three factors in DVT development.
What is Venous stasis?
A heart rate of less than 60 beats per minute with normal P waves.
What is Sinus Bradycardia?
The medication for stable SVT administered via rapid IV push.
What is Adenosine?
This specific chamber pumps oxygenated blood throughout the entire body.
What is the Left Ventricle?
The five "Ps" monitored during management of arterial occlusion.
What are Pain, Pallor, Pulselessness, Paresthesia, and Paralysis?
This system's stimulation increases heart rate and force of contraction.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
A rhythm described as "irregularly irregular" with a chaotic baseline.
What is Atrial Fibrillation?
This emergency procedure delivers electrical energy through the skin to treat severe bradydysrhythmias.
What is Transcutaneous Pacing/TCP?
The property of cardiac cells that allows them to generate an electrical impulse spontaneously.
What is Automaticity?
This cardiac failure often presents with bilateral pitting edema in the lower extremities.
What is Right Ventricular Failure/RVF?
A group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels, including CHD.
What is Cardiovascular Disease/CVD?
This rhythm occurs when some atrial impulses are not conducted to the ventricles.
What are Second-Degree Heart Blocks
Maneuvers used to stimulate baroreceptors to slow the heart rate.
What are Vagal Maneuvers?