Cardiovascular Review & Hemodynamics - NURS2244 Crossword

Workload of the heart increases, if problems occur with this body system.
What type of blood flows into the right side of the heart?
The ability of a cell to transmit an electrical stimulus from cell membrane to cell membrane is known as what?
Relaxation & filling of the atria & ventricles wth changing pressure & volume is known as what?
What nerve slows the heart rate?
What system's function is to deliver oxygen & nutrients to various body tissue?
Systolic & diastolic blood pressure represents contraction & relaxation of what part of the heart?
Mean Arterrial Pressure is considered to be the perfusion pressure. What MAP is adequate to sustain the organs of the average person under most conditions?
Hemodynamic monitoring uses an invasive system to evaluate the function & ________ of the heart.
Identify one of the indications for hemodynamic monitoring.
What is taken into consideration that makes the cardiac index different from the cardiac output?
With this hear rate, the heart has time to fill, but is not pumping enough blood adequately to the rest of the body, cardiac output is low.
The more the heart is filled within its limits during diatole, the more forceful it contracts is the law of who?
Filling pressures are known as what?
Resistance the blood in the venttricle must overcome to force the valves open and eject contents into the circulation, is known as what?
How well the ventricular walls move is known as what?
The ejection fraction indicates the systolic performance of the _______ ventricle as a pump.
What part of hemodynamic monitoring is important to the critical care nurse?
When central venous pressures are low, what prescription by the provider should the nurse anticipate?
What does the critical care nurse have to do to the transducer every shift & prn?
What is an indication of low SvO2 levels?
What type of line is placed for hemodynamic monitoring?
What can not be administered through an A-Line?
A Swan-Ganz catheter is placed in what artery?
Which port of the A-Line measures PAWP & is knows as the VIP port?
This is required to place a PA catherter/Swan-Ganz.
What position does the nurse need to place thier client in to assist with placement of a PA catheter?
The 4th intercostal space, mid axillary line is the measurement of the _________ axis.
The nurse must monitor & _________connections between pressure tubing, transducer, & catheter ports.
Specimen collection for blood cultures are needed if this complcation of PA cattheters occur.