Question | Answer |
ACLS | advance cardiac life support |
AED | automated external defibrillator |
AF, AFIB, AT, FIB, | atrial fibrillation |
AIVR | accelerated idiventrical rhythm |
AMI | acute myocardial infarction |
ASCVD | arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease |
ASD | atrial septal defect |
ASHD | arteriosclerotic heart disease |
AV, V-A | artrioventricular arteriovenous |
AVB | artrioventricular block |
AVD | aortic valve disease |
AVR | aortic valve replacement |
AVS | arteriovenouse shunt |
BBB | bundle brance block |
BCLS | basic cardiac life support |
BP | blood preassure |
Anemia | is an inadequate number of red blood cells |
iron deficiency anemia | result when there is an inadequent amount of iron to form hemoglobin in erythrocytes |
aplastic anemia | is a result in injury to or destruction of the bone marrow |
pernicious anemia | result in the formation of abnormally large and an inadequate number of erythrocytes |
sickle cell anemia | is a chronic inherited anemia |
anerysm | is a ballooning out of the saclike formation on |
arteriosceloris | is a hardening or thickening of the arterial walls |
athrosceloris | occurs when fatty plaques |
congestive heart faliure | is a condition that occurs when the heart muscle do not beat |
an embolus | is a foreign substance circulatory in the bloodstream |
hemophilia | is an inherited disease that occurs almost exclusively in males |
hypertension | is hight blood preassure |
leukemia | is a mallgnant disease of the bone marrow or lymh tissue |
myocardial infraction | or heart attack occures when blockage in the coronary arteries |
infarct | the affected tissue dies and is known |
phlebitis | is an inflamation of a vein frequently in the leg |
thrombophlebits | isa thrombus or clot forms the condition |
vericose veins | are dilated, swollen veins that have lost elasticity |