Cardio #1 Flashcards
What is the Endocardium?
a. innermost layer of heart
b. line inside of heart
What is the Myocardium?
a. middle muscular layer
b. Thickest part
d. Does all the work
What is the Peri/epicardium?
a. outermost part of heart
b. Protective covering
What are the major vessels of the heart?
a. Aorta: Main Street
b. Superior vena cava
c. Inferior vena cava
d. Pulmonary artery
e. Pulmonary vein
What are the chambers of the heart?
a. Rt atrium
b. Lt atrium
c. Rt ventricle
d. Lt ventricle
What are the valves of the heart?
a. Aortic semilunar valve
b. Pulmonary semilunar valve
c. Tricuspid valve
d. Bicuspid valve
How does blood flow thru chambers of the heart?
Into rt atrium------- tricuspid valve------- rt ventricle------ pulmonary semilunar valve------ Pulmonary artery------- capillaries in lung------- pulmonary veins------ lt atrium------- Bicuspid (mitral) valve------- lt ventricle------- aortic semilunar valve------- aorta
What might indicate Risk for heart Dz?
a. chief complaint: reason pt came to see
doc ex chest pain, SOB, tiredness
b. past medical hx: stressed, meds, past
surgeries, existing conditions
c. medications
d. family hx: has the pt or anyone in his/her
family ever had a heart attack, any heart
disease in immediate family
e. social hx: smoking, drinking
What are notable cardiovascular assessment findings?
a. LOC due to > O2 to brain - meds - DM -
altered BP - head injury - UTI - hrt issues
dizzy -
b. pallor/cyanosis
c. Clubbing/fingers(long term poor gasexch)
d. slow capillary refill
e. JVD-bld pooling - veins well/distend CHF)
f. assess all pulses
g. extremities - color - mvmt - sensitivity
h. pitting edema
i. Homan’s sign (ck for DVT)
j. hrt sounds (lub dub)
k. VS
l. EKG
What is the SA node and what does it do?
a. pace maker of the heart
b. Sends elec impulse 60-90 X/ per min,
c. heart muscle contracts in response to
elec impulse
What does the AV node do?
a. picks up impulse from the SA node
b. Causes delay then sends impulse to
ventricles (bundle of HIS, purkinje fibers,
contractile heart muscle cells) &
ventricles contract
What is Ectopic focus?
a. area of irritability that depolarizes
prematurely
b. something besides SA node initiating
heart beat
c. causes premature heart beat
d. can occur in either atriums or ventricles
e. can be one area or multiple areas that all
fire off at once
What is an EKG?
electro cardiogram: wh leaves a tracing of heart activity that can be graphed in a timely fashion.
Define EKG paper
a. graph paper made up of small & larger
heavy, lined squares. 300 dark
lines per minute
How to calculate heart-rate w/EKG?
estimated by counting dark lines btw each beat then dividing into 300 ex 7 (spaces) into 300=42 beats per min
What happens in a P-wave?
SA node fires off and atriums depolarize or contracts
What happens in a QRS-complex?
ventricles depolarizing or contracting
What happens in a T-wave?
ventricles re-polarizes. The heart is preparing to receive next electrical impulse
What is a PR interval?
the delay created by the AV node
What is PT (prothrombin time?
coagulation test for pts on Coumadin
What is PTT (partial thromboplastin time?
coagulation test for pts on heparin
What is INR (international normalized ratio?
companion to the PT test
Why are hemoglobin/hematocrit tests done?
to check for anemia
What is LDL?
bad cholesterol
What is HDL?
good cholesterol
How to monitor cholesterol?
Doing lipid studies