Cardiac -- You make my heart skip a beat ....

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Across
  1. 2. Low pitch heart sounds heard on diastole. Use bell of stethoscope, patient turns onto left side
  2. 5. Sits between the two right chambers of the heart (Right atria and right ventricle)
  3. 6. Heart muscle contracts and pumps blood from chambers into arteries
  4. 8. Main artery that carries blood away from the heart to the rest of the body
  5. 9. Blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood to your heart (into heart)
  6. 11. Small flap in left side of heart that stops blood flowing the wrong way, allows blood to flow from the lungs to the heart
  7. 12. Place in heart that pumps blood
  8. 13. Major vein in upper body, carries blood from head, neck and upper chest to heart _______ Vena Cava
  9. 15. These prevent back flow of blood into the ventricles when ventricles relax (two words)
  10. 17. Spaces between the ribs
  11. 18. Place in heart that stores blood
Down
  1. 1. 5th point of auscultation for cardiac assessment, sits in 3rd intercostal space, close to sternum (two words)
  2. 3. Blood vessels that distribute oxygen rich blood to your body (away from the heart)
  3. 4. Heart muscle relaxes and allows chambers to fill with blood
  4. 7. The measurement of the pressure or force of blood against the walls of the arteries (two words)
  5. 10. Body's largest vein - carries deoxygenated blood back from the lower part of the body (below diaphragm) ________ Vena Cava
  6. 14. 60-100 beats per minute (two words)
  7. 16. Name of cardiac medication that needs to be held if pulse less than 60 bpm