Cardiovascular Health

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Across
  1. 4. A life-threatening irregular, fast heart rhythm originating in the lower chambers of the heart
  2. 6. is a procedure done in specialized areas of radiology
  3. 9. is a test that uses ultrasound to look at the heart and its vessels
  4. 11. measuring blood pressure
  5. 13. networks of small vessels that perfuse tissues
  6. 15. is a procedure used to treat coronary artery disease
  7. 16. beyond or excess
  8. 19. vessels that return blood to the heart
  9. 20. A permanent or temporary device that is implanted in a patients chest to assist the extremely weakened heart
  10. 21. loss of blood flow to part to the brain, which damages tissue
  11. 22. process of freeing or destroying
  12. 23. pumps blood through the system
Down
  1. 1. emitting of reflection light
  2. 2. vessels that deliver blood to tissues
  3. 3. test that shows narrowing, aneurysms, collect samples,and detects pressure in the heart
  4. 5. delivers nutrients and oxygen to all cells in the body
  5. 6. The main blood vessel that leads away from the heart,down through the abdomen to the rest of the body
  6. 7. caused by plaque buildup in the wall of the arteries that supply blood into the heart
  7. 8. is an emergency procedure that can help save a persons life if their breathing or heart stops
  8. 10. long term condition when your heart cant pump blood well enough to give your body a normal supply
  9. 11. a wall/partition or septum
  10. 12. blood pressure that is higher than normal
  11. 14. small sticky dots and wire leads are put on the chest,arms and legs
  12. 17. behind or back/backward
  13. 18. Disease of blood vessels outside of the heart