First Week Test:

Question 1

___ begins with the right side of the heart sending blood to the lungs to absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

Answer 1

Pulmonary Circulation

Question 2

___ is a vessel that carries blood away from the heart.

Answer 2

Arteries

Question 3

The tissue walls between the chambers of the heart are:

Answer 3

Septa

Question 4

What is the combining form for an upper chamber of the heart?

Answer 4

Artri/o

Question 5

Deoxygenated blood travels to the lungs through the:

Answer 5

Pulmonary Artery

Question 6

Oxygenated blood leaves the heart through the ___ and returns to the heart through the ___.

Answer 6

Aorta, Vena Cava

Question 7

What is another term for the bicuspid valve?

Answer 7

Mitral Valve

Question 8

The inner lining of the heart is the:

Answer 8

Endocardium

Question 9

___ have one way valves to prevent a back flow of blood.

Answer 9

Veins

Question 10

What is an alternative name for the bundle of His?

Answer 10

Atrial Ventricular Bundle

Question 11

What is cyanosis?

Answer 11

A bluish, greyish discoloration of the skin

Question 12

A disease in which the arterial walls become thickened and lose their elastic, without the presence of atheroma’s is:

Answer 12

Arterial sclerosis

Question 13

Cramp like pains in the calves caused by poor circulation in the leg muscles is:

Answer 13

Claudication

Question 14

Blood returns from the head, neck, and upper extremities through:

Answer 14

SVC

Question 15

What is a myocardial infarction?

Answer 15

Heart attack

Question 16

What is the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia, a series of extremely rapid and irregular contractions?

Answer 16

Atrial Fibrillation

Question 17

What is the contraction phase of a heartbeat?

Answer 17

Systole

Question 18

What is the relaxation phase of a heartbeat?

Answer 18

Diastole

Question 19

Medical term for enlarged heart:

Answer 19

Cardiomegaly

Question 20

What does a lipid profile measure in the circulating blood:

Answer 20

Cholesterol & Triglycerides

Question 21

Define CABG:

Answer 21

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), also called heart bypass surgery, is a medical procedure to improve blood flow to the heart.
It may be needed when the arteries supplying blood to the heart, called coronary arteries, are narrowed or blocked.

Question 22

A record or recording of electrical impulses of the heart produced by an electrocardiograph is:

Answer 22

EKG or ECG

Question 23

What is the natural pacemaker of the heart?

Answer 23

Sinoatrial

Question 24

The impulse from the AV node is picked up by:

Answer 24

Bundle of His

Question 25

The state where the cardiac cells are recovering is the ___ state.

Answer 25

Repolarized

Question 26

The state that creates electrical activity that can be picked up by an EKG is ___ state.

Answer 26

Depolarized & Repolarized

Question 27

Upward movement away from the baseline in an ECG tracing is ___ deflection.

Answer 27

Positive

Question 28

A period of time between two points or events on the ECG tracing is an:

Answer 28

Interval

Question 29

What is the first wave in the tracing of an ECG? ___ it represents atrial depolarization.

Answer 29

P wave

Question 30

What 2 things occurs during the QRS complex?

Answer 30

1. Depolarization of ventricles 2. Atrial depolarization

Question 31

The _____ is the point where the QRS complex ends and the ST segment starts.

Answer 31

J point

Question 32

Lead 2 is created using the ___ & ___ electrodes.

Answer 32

RA, & LL

Question 33

An artifact of leads 1 and 3. What electrode would you check?

Answer 33

LA

Question 34

What are augmented leads?

Answer 34

a unipolar lead

Question 35

Two facts about thermal paper:

Answer 35

1. React when heat is applied to produce an image 2. The electrocardiograph moves at a speed of 25 mm/sec.

Question 36

What is the default chart speed?

Answer 36

25 mm/sec

Question 37

What chest electrode is placed on the 5th intercostal space mid-clavicular line?

Answer 37

V4

Question 38

What type of artifact appears as jagged peaks with irregular height and spacing?

Answer 38

Somatic

Question 39

A ___ ___ monitors the heart over a 24-48 hour period while the patient goes about his or her normal activities.

Answer 39

Holter monitor

Question 40

___ valve is between the right upper and lower chambers of the heart.

Answer 40

Tricuspid

Question 41

THE PFT that measures the exhaled air and can be done at home to manage chronic respiratory conditions?

Answer 41

Peak Flow

Question 42

Suffix that means process of measurement?

Answer 42

-metry