Lecture Exam 2 Flashcards
How many liters of blood are in the human body?
5
Atrial Contraction is a ___ wave.
P Wave
What is a QRS complex?
Ventricular Contraction
What is a T Wave?
Ventricular Contraction
What does a Blip signal and what type of contraction is it?
Signals - Heart Trouble Contraction- Ventricular
Test for the heart that involves exercising on a bicycle or treadmill.
Stress Test
Test for the heart that involves just sitting.
Resting Test
The monitor that is used in ambulances that is a portable EKG.
Holter Monitor
When the heart beats too fast. (a type of arrhythmia)
Atrial Flutter
Extra abnormal heartbeats that begin in the ventricles and QRS happens too soon. (a type of arrhythmia)
Pre Ventricular Contraction or PVC
When the heart quivers instead of pumping due to disorganized electrical activity in the ventricles. There’s no heart beat. (a type of arrhythmia)
Ventricular Fibrillation
A restriction of blood supply in the tissues. Involves defibrillation.
Ischemia
When the cardiac conduction system quits.
Cardiac Arrest (Heart Attack)
The volume of blood per minute.
Cardiac Output
What is the formula for cardiac output?
Stroke Volume times Heart Rate
The amount of blood leaving the ventricles 1 time.
Stroke Volume
Number of stroke volumes per minute.
Heart Rate
What goes in must come out….
Blood
The length of stretch the harder it contracts. (think of a rubber band.)
Starling’s Law of the Heart
The regulation of heart rate that deals with fight or flight.
Sympathetic
Rest and decreases heart rate.
Parasympathetic
Involuntary or unconscious.
Autonomic
The regulation of your heart rate is ________.
Autonomic
These control blood pressure.
Baroreceptors