heart stuff

Question 1

angina pectoris

Answer 1

• no permanent damage
• relax, goes away
• bc of narrow arteries

Question 2

acute myocardial infarction (heart attack)

Answer 2

• O2 cant reach heart
• injury and death to heart
• clot or plaque build up

Question 3

congestive heart failure

Answer 3

• failure to pump blood effectively
• difficulty breathing while supine
• left sided heart failure
• jvd
• rales (rattling noises)
• blood can back up into lungs

Question 4

corpulmonale

Answer 4

• clear lungs

- hypotensive

Question 5

traumatic chest pain

Answer 5

-usually chest wall sometimes heart

Question 6

cpr

Answer 6

pulse <60 in infant

• aed not 100%, shocks for ventricular fibrillation(all over the place) and ventricular tachycardia (no pulse too fast)
• remove transdermal med patches
• dont put aed on pacemaker
• if pt looses pulse stop ambulance aed cant defib if in mvmt

Question 7

cardiac compromise/ acute coronary syndrome

Answer 7

• any time heart may not be getting enough oxygen
• treat all pts w/ acs ish symptoms as if they have heart issues
• chest pain is best known symptom
• dyspnea sometimes

Question 8

coronary artery disease

Answer 8

• arthrosclerosis
• arterial sclerosis
• narrow arteries blocked srteries

Question 9

thrombus

Answer 9

• shutting off blood flow from clot, how embolism happens, clot moves
• reduced blood supply to myocardium, causes emergency in most cardiac

Question 10

aneurysm

Answer 10

-weakened sections of arterial walls begin to dilate, sometimes pop and kill

Question 11

dysrhythmia

Answer 11

• irregular heart beat

- electrical malfunction

Question 12

diaphoresis

Answer 12

extreme sweating