Key Terms

Question 1

What is afterload?

Answer 1

The resistance from the arteries when the heart is trying to pump blood through them.

Question 2

Cardiac output

Answer 2

Volume of blood being pumped out by heart

Question 3

Cardiomegaly

Answer 3

When the heart is enlarged

Question 4

Cardiomyopathy

Answer 4

Group of heart conditions that can lead to cardiomegaly muscle failiure or death

Question 5

Dyspnea

Answer 5

Difficulty breathing, usually paired with anxiety

Question 6

Heart failure

Answer 6

Heart has poor cardiac output

Question 7

Hemoptysis

Answer 7

When you cough up blood

Question 8

Nocturia

Answer 8

Having to urinate at night, in the context of cardiac issues it is when you lay down and have gravity dependent edema. Fluid shifts to the back and thus the kidneys with the increased perfusion to the kidneys and excess fluid.

Question 9

Orthopnea

Answer 9

Difficulty breathing when laying down.

Question 10

Positive inotropic

Answer 10

Drugs that can cause stronger muscle contraction

Question 11

Preload

Answer 11

When the blood that comes back to the heart to be circulated again puts pressure on ventricles

Question 12

Pulmonary edema

Answer 12

Fluid build up in lungs

Question 13

Tachypnea

Answer 13

Fast shallow respirations