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