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The first structure in the heart's conduction pathway.
What is the SA node?
What is the myocardium?
Medication often given to relieve chest pain by dilating blood vessels and improving blood flow to the heart
What is nitroglycerin?
Normal blood pressure
What is 120/80 mm Hg?
This type of exercise, like walking or cycling, can help strengthen the heart and improve cardiovascular fitness
What is aerobic exercise?
If the "natural pacemaker" becomes non-dysfunctional, this node can initiate each heartbeat but at a slower rate (40-60 bpm).
What is the AV node?
This chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body through the aorta.
What is the left ventricle?
The vital sign most closely monitored when administering a beta-blocker to a patient
What is the heart rate?
Normal heart rate
What is 60-100 bpm?
Eating a diet LOW in these 2 nutrients can help support a healthy cardiac diet
What are saturated fats and sodium
A regular rhythm that is faster than 100 bpm.
What is sinus tachycardia?
The heart valve that separates the right atrium from the right ventricle and prevents backflow of blood during ventricular contraction.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This potentially dangerous condition is a risk when taking aspirin for cardiovascular protection
What is gastrointestinal bleeding?
What is 3.5 to 5.3 mEq/L?
Chest pain due to ischemia from reduced blood flow and O2 delivery
What is angina pain?
This class of medication is used to slow down a rapid heart rate, specifically atrial fibrillation.
What is a beta-blocker?
The valve that prevents blood from flowing backward into the left ventricle after it has been pumped into the aorta
What is the aortic valve?
Diuretics are often prescribed to heart failure patients to reduce fluid buildup. When taking diuretics, the nurse should monitor this electrolyte level closely, as low levels may lead to dangerous complications.
What is potassium?
Calculation of cardiac output
What is SV X HR?
(3) Complications of a myocardial infarction
What are arrhythmias, cardiogenic shock, heart failure, pulmonary edema, emboli, septal rupture, and/or pericarditis?
The structure in the brain that receives sensory input from the environment and alters heart function
What is the medulla oblongata?
Signs and symptoms a nurse would most likely observe in a patient with mitral regurgitation. (3 symptoms)
What are symptoms such as auscultated murmur, chest pain, palpitations, syncope, fatigue, cough, hemoptysis, and peripheral edema?
A nurse is caring for a patient on ACE inhibitors for hypertension. The nurse should be alert for this adverse effect?
Time of peak onset of serum troponin level
What is 15-20 hours?
In this procedure, the saphenous vein from the leg and/or an internal mammary artery from the chest wall is used to reroute blood around the segment of the coronary artery that is narrowed by atherosclerosis
What is a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)?