Heart Energy and Heart Failure Flashcards

1
Q

Congestive Heart _____ can be a problem caused by failure of either the _____ of the right side pumps in the _____ to keep up

A

Failure, Left, Heart

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2
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When the _____ on the left side of the _____ are incompetent, it causes _____ edema

A

Pumps, Heart, Pulmonary

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3
Q

Pulmonary _____ can cause shortness of breath, make it hard to exercise or _____, or, in its most _____ form, death

A

Edema, Walk, Fatal

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4
Q

When the _____ becomes congested, it causes a “_____ jam” in the blood _____

A

Blood, Traffic, Vessels

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5
Q

Edema is _____ caused by _____ accumulating in the _____

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Swelling, Fluid, Tissues

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6
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When the right pumps are _____, it causes peripheral _____

A

Incompetent, Peripheral Edema

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7
Q

Peripheral means _____ occurs in parts of the _____

far from the _____

A

Swelling, Body, Heart

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8
Q

A _____ is a _____ of events that _____

A

Cycle, Sequence, Reoccur

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9
Q

The _____ fraction is the fraction of _____ that _____ the _____ when it pumps

A

Ejection, Blood, Exit, Heart

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10
Q

The _____ ejection fraction is _____ to _____% of the blood in the _____

A

Healthy, Sixty, Seventy, Heart

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11
Q

The Coronary _____ is a way for the heart to pump _____ to _____

A

Circulation, Blood, Itself

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12
Q

The Coronary Circulation is a system of _____ and _____ that delivers _____ blood to the heart muscle an carries away _____ blood

A

Arteries, Veins, Oxygen-Rich, Deoxygenated

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13
Q

The _____ is the heart _____

A

Myocardium, Muscle

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14
Q

The very _____ part of the _____ is called the ascending _____

A

First, Aorta, Aorta

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15
Q

The two _____ that branch off from the _____ aorta are called the right and left _____ arteries.

A

Arteries, Ascending, Coronary

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16
Q

The left _____ artery supplies the _____ needed in the _____ side of the heart

A

Coronary, Nutrients, Left

17
Q

The right side of the _____ is supplied with the needed _____ by the right _____ artery

A

Heart, Nutrients, Coronary

18
Q

_____ means front

A

Front

19
Q

Posterior means _____

A

Posterior

20
Q

The muscle wall between the _____ is called the _____ Septum

A

Ventricles, Interventricular

21
Q

The left anterior _____ artery supplies the _____ of the left side, of the heart, with _____

A

Descending, Front, Nutrients

22
Q

The _____ artery takes blood to the _____ of the _____ side of the heart

A

Circumflex, Back, Left

23
Q

The left _____ descending artery and the circumflex _____ split into many little _____ to ensure _____ circulation

A

Anterior, Artery, Arteries, Complete

24
Q

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is when the _____ inside the _____ artery becomes _____

A

Lining, CORONARY, Thick

25
Q

Severe _____ is called a “_____”

A

Narrowing, Blockage

26
Q

When _____ oxygen is not delivered to the heart _____ it is called myocardial _____.

A

Adequate, Muscle, Ischemia (Ih-skee-mia)

27
Q

Angina _____ can be a _____ of Coronary Artery _____

A

Pectoris, Symptom, Disease

28
Q

Coronary _____ is when a tiny _____ is threaded through the _____ and a _____ is inflated to open the artery.

A

Angioplasty, Wire, Blockage, Balloon,

29
Q

Most often, a miniature _____ device is inserted in the _____ to help hold it _____

A

Mesh, Artery, Open

30
Q

Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABS) is _____ to _____ the blood around the _____

A

Performed, Route, Blockage

31
Q

_____ Diseases are Heart _____

A

Cardiovascular, Diseases

32
Q

A risk _____ is something that puts a person at greater _____ of suffering a _____ thing than other _____

A

Factor, Risk, Particular, People

33
Q

Don’t _____ start _____

A

EVER, Smoking

34
Q

A myocardial _____ is commonly _____ to as a “heart _____”

A

Infarction (In-fark-shun), Referred, Attack