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The meaning of the root “cardio”
What is “heart”?
The word that breaks down to mean “related to small heart vessels”
What is cardiovascular?
The word that literally means “to send/contract through/across”
What is the diastolic (or diastole)?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! The literal meaning of the word “sphygmomanometer”
What is “pulse measurement”?
The word for a person who studies the blood
What is Hematologist?
What you need electrodes and alligator clips to take
What is an EKG?
What a sphygmanomo meter is used to measure
What is blood pressure?
What tool is needed if someone is measuring heart rate with the fingers
What is a clock or timer?
The technical name for the tool used to measure blood pressure
What is sphygmanomo meter?
The name of the things stuck to the guy’s chest
What are electrodes?
The unit in which heart rate is measured
What is beats per minute (BPM)?
Something that could raise heart rate
What is stress, anger, exercise, etc.
The best way to lower your heart rate (long term)
What is cardiovascular exercise!!!
DAILY DOUBLE!!! If the length of my R-R is 0.70 s, what is my heart rate?
86 BPM
Why Michael Phelps’ resting heart rate is 32 BPM
His heart is extremely toned and efficient!
The name for the top number of a blood pressure reading
What is systolic?
The blood pressure reading that is considered NORMAL
What is 120/80?
The #1 thing to avoid in your diet if trying to lower blood pressure
What is salt?
A likely consequence of persistent high blood pressure
What is stroke, heart attack, blindness…
The relationship between arteriosclerosis and high blood pressure
Arteriosclerosis is a hardening or filling of vessels that blocks blood flow through vessels, raising the pressure the heart must exert and straining the heart
The shorter way of saying electrocardiograph
What is EKG?
What EKG literally means
A picture of the heart’s electricity
The 3 parts of the heart’s electrical system
What is SA node, AV node and Purkinje fibers
If a person has to get a pacemaker, it’s because THIS failed
Their SA node
What’s happening in the heart when we see the bumps circled
What is 1)The SA node is firing 2)The atria are emptying
A person with 1-2 years of education who administers EKGs is called this
What is an EKG technician?
The kind of doctor who would give stress tests and perform non- invasive surgeries like heart stints is called this
What is cardiologist?
The number of years of schooling (to within a year) required to become a cardiologist
What is 12?
The degrees (in order) that a cardiologist would need to earn
What is B.S. and M.D.?
The primary organ that a nephrologist specializes in
What is kidneys?
This is an EKG of an atrioventricular block. In simple language, what’s happening in the heart?
The signal from the SA node isn’t making it past the AV node to the purkinje fibers, so the ventricles aren’t contracting and blood isn’t being pumped out of the heart.