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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: Acute Coronary (ACS) Answer: a group of signs and symptoms resulting from any of a of conditions that can affect the heart in which the coronary arteries are narrowed or occluded by fat deposits, clots, or spasm. Question: AortaAnswer: the artery from the heart. Question: Answer: the smallest branch of an artery, which at its end leads into a capillary. Question: ArteryAnswer: blood vessel that carries blood away from the . Question: AsystoleAnswer: a heart rhythm indication absence of any activity in the heart, also known as flatline. Question: Answer: the two upper chambers of the Question: Automated Defibrillator (AED)Answer: a device that can analyze the electrical activity or rhythm of a patient's heart and deliver an electrical shock (defibrillation) if . Question: AutomaticityAnswer: the ability of cells within the cardiac conduction to generate a cardiac impulse on their own. Question: Blood Answer: the force exerted by the blood on the walls of the blood vessels. Question: Capillary Answer: tiny blood vessel connecting arerioles to venules, site of gas and exchange Question: Cardiac Answer: the cessation of cardiac with the patient displaying no pulse, no breathing and unresponsiveness. Question: Cardiac Answer: reduced heart function caused by any of a variety of , diseases, or injuries affecting the heart. Question: Cardiac Conduction Answer: the specialized contractile and conductive tissue of the heart that generates electrical impulses and causes the to beat. Also called the coronary conduction system. Question: Of Survival Answer: term used by the American Association for the series of four interventions-early access, early CPR, early defibrillation, and early ACLS-that provides the best chance for successful resuscitation of a cardiac arrest victim. Question: Circulatory Answer: system composed of the heart and blood vessels that brings oxygen and nutrients to and takes wastes away from body cells. Also the cardiovascular system. Question: ArteriesAnswer: network of arteries supplying the heart with . Question: DefibrillationAnswer: electrical shock or current delivered to the heart through the patient's chest wall to help the restore a normal rhythm Question: HeartAnswer: the organ that contracts to force blood into circulation through the body. Question: HypoperfusionAnswer: the insufficient supply of oxygen and other nutrients to some of the body's that results from inadequate circulation of blood. Also called shock. Question: Answer: medication that dilates the blood vessels, increasing blood flow and decreasing the workload of the heart; often prescribed for with a history of chest pain Question: Answer: the delivery of oxygen and other nutrients to the cells of all organ systems, which results from the constant adequate circulation of through the capillaries Question: ArteryAnswer: vessel carrying oxygen-depleted blood from the heart's right ventricle to the . Question: Pulmonary Answer: vessel carrying oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the . Question: Pulseless Electrical (PEA) Answer: a condition in which the heart generates relatively normal electrical rhythms but fails to perfuse the body adequately of a decreased or absent cardiac output from cardiac muscle failure or blood loss. Question: ShockAnswer: see Question: Answer: vessel that blood toward the heart. Question: Cavae Answer: the two major veins that carry oxygen-depleted back to the heart: superior venae cavae from the upper body, inferior venae cavae from the lower body. Question: ventriclesAnswer: the two lower chambers of the Question: Ventricular (VF or V-Fib) Answer: a continuous, uncoordinated, rhythm that does not produce pulses. Question: Tachycardia (VT or V-Tach)Answer: a very rapid heart rhythm that may or may not a pulse and is generally too fast to adequately perfuse the body's organs. Question: Answer: vein, leading from a capillary. |
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