Question | Answer |
Where is the heart located? | The center of the chest with a slight lean to the left |
How many beats does it take a heart to beat in a year? | It beats over 35 million times in a a year |
How big is a adult's heart? | About the size of their two fists put together |
How hard does the heart beat? | The same amount of force it takes you to squeeze a tennis ball |
Where are the four chambers located? | Located in the center of the chest |
What does the blue vein represent? | Oxygen poor poor blood |
What doest the red vein represent? | Oxygen rich blood |
Define Aorta | Oxygen rich blood pumped out to the body |
Oxygen rich blood is *blank* to your organs/tissues | Food |
What is the Pulmonary Artery? | It is the artery that oxygen poor blood gets pumped to the lungs to pick up oxygen |
What is ANGINA Pectoris? | Chest pain caused by heart not getting enough oxygen |
What causes chest pain and cardiac arrest? (name 3) | Clogged Arteries, Blood Clot, and damaged heart tissue |
What is plaque? | Plaque is made of fat and cholesterol that sticks to the wall of an artery and once its stuck, more plaque builds up easier |
What is Atherosclerosis? | Medical word to describe the condition of plaque clogging an artery and causing the heart to receive less oxygen |
Define Blood Clot | When plaque builds up and starts to tear and blood platelets will stick and blocks any blood flow |
How can heart tissue be | |
If the heart gets less oxygen rich blood, what happens? | It can cause parts of the heart tissue to die |
What is Myocardial Ischemia? | The heart gets more oxygen than needed wich can cause death of a tissue |
What is angioplasty? | A balloon wrapped a thin wire is inserted into the artery that has plaque build up and then it is inflated to push the plaque and let blood flow |
What is a stent? | a wire cage can be placed in the artery to keep it open |
Define Bypass | An artery from another part of the body attached belo the blockage of the damaged artery and at the aorta so a new path for blood is created |
What is a heart attack? | When a lack of oxygen to the heart tissue occurs long enough for the heart tissue to die |
What are the symptoms of a heart attack? (name at least 3) | Pressure in the chest, sweating, chewst pain that last more than 5 minutes, pain in the shoulders, arms, neck, and jaw, nausea, dizziness, and trouble of breathing |
What do to if they have the heart attack symptoms? | Tell them to not do anything, tell them to stay calm, call 9-1-1, and give them aspirin |
If they go unconscious... | Do the Cardiac chain of survival |
What is the cardiac chain of survival (In order) | |