Heart Energy and Heart Failure Flashcards
Congestive Heart _____ can be a problem caused by failure of either the _____ of the right side pumps in the _____ to keep up
Failure, Left, Heart
When the _____ on the left side of the _____ are incompetent, it causes _____ edema
Pumps, Heart, Pulmonary
Pulmonary _____ can cause shortness of breath, make it hard to exercise or _____, or, in its most _____ form, death
Edema, Walk, Fatal
When the _____ becomes congested, it causes a “_____ jam” in the blood _____
Blood, Traffic, Vessels
Edema is _____ caused by _____ accumulating in the _____
Swelling, Fluid, Tissues
When the right pumps are _____, it causes peripheral _____
Incompetent, Peripheral Edema
Peripheral means _____ occurs in parts of the _____
far from the _____
Swelling, Body, Heart
A _____ is a _____ of events that _____
Cycle, Sequence, Reoccur
The _____ fraction is the fraction of _____ that _____ the _____ when it pumps
Ejection, Blood, Exit, Heart
The _____ ejection fraction is _____ to _____% of the blood in the _____
Healthy, Sixty, Seventy, Heart
The Coronary _____ is a way for the heart to pump _____ to _____
Circulation, Blood, Itself
The Coronary Circulation is a system of _____ and _____ that delivers _____ blood to the heart muscle an carries away _____ blood
Arteries, Veins, Oxygen-Rich, Deoxygenated
The _____ is the heart _____
Myocardium, Muscle
The very _____ part of the _____ is called the ascending _____
First, Aorta, Aorta
The two _____ that branch off from the _____ aorta are called the right and left _____ arteries.
Arteries, Ascending, Coronary
The left _____ artery supplies the _____ needed in the _____ side of the heart
Coronary, Nutrients, Left
The right side of the _____ is supplied with the needed _____ by the right _____ artery
Heart, Nutrients, Coronary
_____ means front
Front
Posterior means _____
Posterior
The muscle wall between the _____ is called the _____ Septum
Ventricles, Interventricular
The left anterior _____ artery supplies the _____ of the left side, of the heart, with _____
Descending, Front, Nutrients
The _____ artery takes blood to the _____ of the _____ side of the heart
Circumflex, Back, Left
The left _____ descending artery and the circumflex _____ split into many little _____ to ensure _____ circulation
Anterior, Artery, Arteries, Complete
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is when the _____ inside the _____ artery becomes _____
Lining, CORONARY, Thick
Severe _____ is called a “_____”
Narrowing, Blockage
When _____ oxygen is not delivered to the heart _____ it is called myocardial _____.
Adequate, Muscle, Ischemia (Ih-skee-mia)
Angina _____ can be a _____ of Coronary Artery _____
Pectoris, Symptom, Disease
Coronary _____ is when a tiny _____ is threaded through the _____ and a _____ is inflated to open the artery.
Angioplasty, Wire, Blockage, Balloon,
Most often, a miniature _____ device is inserted in the _____ to help hold it _____
Mesh, Artery, Open
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABS) is _____ to _____ the blood around the _____
Performed, Route, Blockage
_____ Diseases are Heart _____
Cardiovascular, Diseases
A risk _____ is something that puts a person at greater _____ of suffering a _____ thing than other _____
Factor, Risk, Particular, People
Don’t _____ start _____
EVER, Smoking
A myocardial _____ is commonly _____ to as a “heart _____”
Infarction (In-fark-shun), Referred, Attack
