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This is without oxygen |
Anoxia |
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This is the amount of blood pumped by the heart per minute |
Cardiac output |
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This is expansion and contraction of an artery felt by placing fingers on the artery |
pulse |
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This is abnormally high blood pressure |
Hypertension |
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This is pain in the chest |
angina pectoris |
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This is one complete heart beat |
Cardiac cycle |
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This is pertaining to the heart , blood vessels, and circulation of blood |
Circulatory |
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This is stoppage of blood flow |
stasis |
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This is formation or presence of blood clot inside a blood vessels or cavity of the heart |
Thrombosis |
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This is any sign or indication of the patients condition |
symptoms |
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This is abnormal rhythm of heart beat |
arrhythmia |
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This is sometimes called a stroke |
cerebrovascular accident |
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This is competence |
insufficiency |
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This is abnormally slow heartbeat |
bradycardia |
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This is area of tissue damaged as a result |
infarct |
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This is blueness of skin caused b y insufficient oxygen in blood |
cynosis |
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Fluttering of the heart ; abnormal rate or rhythm of beat |
palpitation |
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Abnormally rapid heart rate: generally anything over 100 beats per minute |
tachycardia |
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This is a period of rapid heart beats that begin and ends suddenly |
paroxysmal tachycardia |
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The AVL is recording from what lead ? |
augumented leads |
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What is angle of louis ? |
located on the sternum |
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This is the hearts primary pacemaker |
The SA node |
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An irregular heart beat but is most commonly called |
sinus arrhythmia |
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theses electrons are only used for the legs |
ground leads |
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clotting reduce oxygen supply to the heart it is known as |
ischemia |
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What is the normal human heart rhythm |
60-100 |
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when the ventricles repolarize what is shown on the EKG tracing |
T wave |
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What does MI stand for |
Myocardio infarction |
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what arrhythmia is associated with sawtooth |
atrial flutter |
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what does the QRS represent |
ventricles repolarize |
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define bradycardia |
slow heart beat under 60bpm |
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define tachycardia |
over 100 but under 150 |
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what during sinus arrest |
drop beat |
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what is asystole |
a flat line= no heart beat |
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name the junctional rhythm that has the heart beat below 50 bpm |
junctional bradycardia |
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Parkinson disease makes a person |
Shake |
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explain wondering baseline |
artifact/ negative deflection |
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what is apnea |
when a person stops breathing during their sleep |
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Atrial depolarization is represented by which wave |
P wave |
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what leads do holter monitor use |
augumented leads |
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what chamber of the heart has the thickest myocardium |
left ventricle |
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what does the p wave represent |
depolarization of atrium |
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what does the PRI represent |
atrium repolarization |
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what are the 3 types of heart blocks ? |
First degree second degree and third degree |
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how is a stress test performed |
exercising and running |
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what is ekg |
elect |