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Supply the heart muscle with oxygen to feed the heart muscle
The Coronary Arteries
Gets oxygenated blood via the AORTA
The coronary arteries
Contraction of the myocardium
Systole
Relaxation of mycardium
Diastole
Amount of blood pumped by each ventricle in 1 minute
Cardiac output
History of present illness, past health history, past and current medications, and surgery or other treatments
Subjective data, health information
List sight common sights for palpating arteries
Carotid (neck), brachial (inner bend of elbow), radial (wrist), ulnar (pinky side of wrist), femoral (groin), popliteal (behind knee), posterior tibial, doralis pedis
List Geriatric Cosiderations
- Age alters the cardiovascular response to physical and emotional stress.
- Heart valves become thick and stiff (tricuspid, mitral, pulmonary and aortic)
- Frequent need for pacemaker as well as replacing pacemaker
- Increase in SBP; decrease or no change in DBP
Blood studies, chest x-ray, electrocardiogram
Diagnostic Test
Chemical found after a myocardial infarction. Maybe found in agina patients.
Triponin
Measuring the size of the heart.
Chest x-ray
Picture of the exact measurements of the heart from 12 angles
Resting ECG
Picture of the heart
Event monitor or loop recorder
Places on chest for 1 or 2 days and it tapes your heart for 3 days and a diary is kept to explain
Halter monitor
Heart pumps blood through the body
Conduction