Heart functionality
Electrical Conductivity
Nursing interventions for arrhythmias
Heart and blood flow
Heart rythms and measurements
100

The passive stretching of the muscle fibers in the ventricles during diastole 

What is Preload  

100

transmission of electrical impulses depend on

what is automaticity, excitability, conductivity, and contractility of cardiac cells.

100

First nursing intervention for this arrhythmia is to have the patient "bear down"

What is SVT

100

Sound caused by valves closing in the heart

What is Lub Dub or S1 S2

100

Normal PR and ORS interval measurements 

What is .12-.20 and .06-.12

200

The pressure that the ventricular muscles must generate to overcome the higher pressures in the aorta to get the blood out of the heart.

What is Afterload 

200

The Impulse Trail

What is Sinoatrial Node to Atrioventricular Node to Bundle Of His to Bundle Branches and lastly to Purkinje Fibers

200

This medication slows and strengthens the heart and has a narrow therapeutic blood level

What is digoxin?

200

Largest muscle in the heart d/t the strength needed to overcome vascular resistance 

What is the Myocardium of the left ventricle 

200

Itty bitty box and normal box measurements

What is 0.04 and .20

300

This is responsible for 30% of the cardiac output – the amount of blood pumped by the ventricles in 1 minute.


What is Atrial contraction or atrial kick

300

Natural pacemaker of the heart

what is SA node

300

Atropine and pacer pads should be ready for this arrhythmia

What is symptomatic bradycardia

300

This coronary artery is the largest of your hearts arteries and feeds mostly the left side of the heart and is known as the windowmaker if complete blockage is present

What is the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) artery

300
a normal regular rhythm of the heart set by the natural pacemaker of the heart called the SA node

What is Normal Sinus Rhythm?

400

The amount of blood pumped out of a ventricle during one contraction

What is Stroke Volume 

400

Gatekeeper of the heart

What is the AV node? It's job is to delay the impulses traveling through the heart

400

Electrical interference, dry electrodes, and poor conduction can all cause this

What is Artifact

400

These are the four main coronary arteries

Right coronary artery, Left coronary artery, Left anterior descending (LAD) artery, and Left circumflex artery.

400

A coordinated rapid beating of the atria, the second most common tachyarrhythmia.

What is Atrial Flutter?

500

The amount of blood pumped out of the heart to the body per minute. 4-8L/min

What is Cardiac output 

500

When this pacemaker takes over in the heart, the heart fires at a rate of 20-40 BPM

What is Purkinje Fibers

500

Assessing the patient, giving oxygen, monitoring VS, checking IV patency/starting IV, and notifying MD

What is Nursing interventions of cardiac arrythmias

500

Pathway of blood flow through the heart

What is Inferior or superior vena cava to the right atrium, through tricuspid valve, to right ventricle, through pulmonary semilunar valve, to pulmonary arteries, to lungs to get oxygenated, then back to pulmonary veins, to the left atrium, through the bicuspid valve to the left ventricle, through the aortic semilunar valve, to the aorta and systemic circulation!

500

Encompasses all tachy dysrhythmias in which heart rate is greater than 150 bpm

What is Supraventricular Tachycardia?